Woman's Buckskin Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: ILLUSTRATED IN HANDBOOK OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 8E, P. 298. PROVENIENCE NOTE: CULTURAL ATTRIBUTION BASED UPON ABOVE REFERENCE: "COLLECTED FROM GOOSE CREEK NORTHERN SHOSHONE, UTAH TERRITORY, 1871-1879." Handbook caption identifies as: "Woman's buckskin dress of 2 hides with separate patches applied as sleeves, stitched with sinew. An Elko Corner-notched stone projectile point hangs from at the front yoke; a bird beak hangs from one shoulder, and a bird foot and claws hang from the other. Length 83.5 cm".
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Notes
content: Attached to dress is an Elko Eared type obsidian projectile point between 3,500 and 1,400 years old. Elko Eared points are found widely distributed in the Great Basin.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Northern, Goose Creek
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00070
label: USNM Number
content: E19828-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 83.5 cm