Ornament For Tent
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Dec 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Heinrich R. Voth
label: Donor Name
content: World's Columbian Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Porcupine work. Voth collection. Set of 5: large circle (dia. ca. 10.5 cm.); two smaller circles (dia. ca. 8 cm.) and two longer rectangular pieces (length 12 and 12.5 cm.). Quillwork on white buckskin (?) in white, brown, yellow, and orange. Note: at some point these five pieces have been sewn together, probably in them museum. See: American Indian Art Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1, Winter, 1984. pg. 56-63, Fig. 11, where they are identified as backrest banner decorations. - bgs." American Indian Art Magazine caption gives measurements: Diameter, larger circle 10.5 cm; smaller 8 cm each; oblong pieces, 12 cm and 12.5 cm long. Caption also notes: "Though assumed to be tipi cover ornaments, the number and shape of items in this unit make it more likely they were intended for a backrest cover."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 10, p. 92 and described pp. 61-65 in Anderson, Jeffrey D. 2013. Arapaho women's quillwork: motion, life, and creativity. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Identified there as White-quilled leanback cover head, eye and ear ornaments; i.e. ornaments for the robe/cover of a bed leanback. On p. 61 Anderson notes: "... Arapaho built beds with four tree-fork pieces for legs supporting rails and a willow-rod frame. On each end was a leanback [backrest] made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle. Covers of buffalo hide with the hair on and quillwork designs were draped over the leanback and bed surface." Illus. Fig. 10, p. 69 in Anderson, Jeffrey D., 2014, "The Sacred Art of Arapaho Quillwork," American Indian Art Magazine, 39(2):60-70. Object is described p. 68 of article.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Cheyenne And Arapaho Reservation, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026674
label: USNM Number
content: E165791-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Ornament
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Object, 5 Pieces Connected Together
content: 30 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object, 5 Pieces Connected Together
content: 16 cm