Willow Backrest
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Jun 1952
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Stevens T. Norvell
label: Collector
content: Mrs. Stevens T. Norvell
label: Donor Name
content: Col. Stevens T. Norvell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "TRAPEZOIDAL SHAPED BACKREST MADE FROM THIN REEDS ATTACHED W/ SINEWS IN 5 STRIPS RUNNING LENGTHWISE. TOP PART IS SHORT END & HAS A BUCKSKIN CARRYING STRAP KNOTTED AT TOP W/ PIECE OF COTTON TWINE. TOP PORTION OF BACKREST DECORATED W/ 14 ALTERNATING HORIZONTAL STRIPES (EACH STRIPE IS 7 REEDS WIDE), PAINTED RED & YELLOW, W/ BLUE-PAINTED REED IN BETWEEN EACH STRIPE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (Northern), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Teton (Lakota) (?)
label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 194890
label: USNM Number
content: E391996-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Backrest
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 147 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 99 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 1.91 cm