Woman's Upper Garment, Cape or Poncho
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 May 2009
name: label: Donor Name
content: Maryland Academy of Sciences
notes: label: Notes
content: Woman's sleeveless upper garment made from a single deer hide worn poncho-style with the head to the front and the tail to the back. Opening for head decorated with yellow paint outlined in red, in a circle extending over the shoulders from front to back. Two painted red "rays" extend from the yellow circle out to the sides on front and back. Sewn on bands of long cut fringes decorate the sides of the garment. Bottom decorated with short fringe. One straight row of long individual fringes attached across the breast and upper back. Interior surface of garment is painted or rubbed with red pigment. Probably worn as a woman's dress top. For a similar object, see catalog number E1480, described by John C. Ewers on catalog card. Reference: Ewers, John C. Artifacts Collected by Jean Louis Berlandier Among the IndianTribes of Texas. Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C), 1969.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Unspecified, Southern Plains
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 387107
label: USNM Number
content: E432555-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 120 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 72 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 9 cm