Man's Shirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Mar 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Richard H. Pratt
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Richard H. Pratt
notes: label: Notes
content: Recorded in the original accession file as : 1 Piegan Shirt, 1892, $15.00
label: Notes
content: Two shirts in this collection (E153,589 and E153,590) are painted with lozenges with squiggly tails, usually interpreted in the literature as “water bugs” or tadpoles. However, a late 19th century label for 153,589 reports that the figures represent “camass” (i.e. camas root), presumably based on information received from the donor Pratt. According to personal communication from Arni Brownstone in 2020, both scholars Hugh Dempsey and Colin Taylor reported that such figures at times represented the prairie or wild turnip, which had a role in the Blackfoot Sun Dance.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Piegan (Piikani)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025516
label: USNM Number
content: E153590-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt