White Trade Blanket 2-1/2 Points
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PART OF GRAVE ESCORT GOODS, CHEYENNE CHILD'S PLATFORM BURIAL. TECHNICAL IDENTIFICATION BY MISS WINDHORST, DIV. OF TEXTILES, U.S.N.M., MAY 1947 - "A 47 1/2" X 69", FULLED, NAPPED, REVERSIBLE FABRIC WOVEN IN 2/2 TWILL WEAVE TO THE RIGHT ON A SPECIAL BLANKET LOOM WHICH ALLOWS A WIDTH OF 100" OR MORE; THREAD COUNT 16 X 16; 100% WOOL YARNS MADE OF SHORT STAPLE FIBERS WHICH PRODUCE A COARSE UNEVEN YARN WITH PROTRUDING SHORT ENDS; HAVING A SOMEWHAT TIGHTLY TWISTED WARP YARN FOR THE FOUNDATION OF THE BLANKET, AND A LIGHTLY TWISTED WEFT YARN SUITED TO NAPPING; PROBABLY STOCK DYED WITH NATURAL DYES; BASIC COLOR FAWN WITH 4 1/4" END STRIPES PRODUCED BY THE USE OF BLACK WEFT YARNS HAVING TWO 4 1/2" LONG AND ONE 2 1/4" LONG, NARROW (3/8") APPLIED ONE SIDE AREA, STRIPES SPACED 1 1/2" FRONT END STRIPE AND AT 1 3/8" INTERVALS, ONE 4" LONG, NARROW (3/8") CENTER APPLIED PINK STRIPE SPACED 1 1/4" FROM END STRIPE AND ONE 4" LONG TAN NARROW (1.4") ONE SIDE AREA STRIPE SPACED 1 3/8" FROM END STRIPE, EFFECTED BY INTRODUCTION OF YARNS ON WHAT PROBABLY WAS CONSIDERED THE RIGHT SIDE AS INDICATED BY THE SLIGHTLY HEAVIER NAP; UNBOUND ENDS; USED PROBABLY AS A BLANKET. PROPER NAME: WOOL BLANKETING. STROUD."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Walnut Creek, Near, Kansas, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001622
label: USNM Number
content: E8862-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 120.6 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 175 cm