Saddle (Frame, Woman's)
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1849
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. Osborne Cross
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: ""... (WOMAN'S) SADDLE". FRAME SADDLE, SIDE BARS 17 1/2" LONG; POMMEL AND CANTLE SIMILAR SHAPES; HIGH INVERTED Y WITH BROAD TOPS BENT OUTWARD, DECORATED WITH FRINGE; SADDLE RAWHIDE COVERED. LARGE PRONG ON POMMEL; BUT NO SUSPENSION SEAT. RAWHIDE (DOUBLED) PADS SEWN INSIDE SIDE BARS. GIRTHING FRAGMENTARY-INCLUDES ONLY FRAGMENT OF 3" WIDE BRADED HORSEHAIR GIRTH. ONE STIRRUP STRAP PRESENT ABOUT 1/4" RAWHIDE; RAWHIDE COVERED STIRRUPS. HEIGHT POMMEL-12 1/4" OF CANTLE 11 1/2". NOTE: S.I. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1851. APPENDIX C. LIST OF ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM OF THE S.I. DURING THE YEAR 1851. (P.108. ITEM 4) MENTIONS: "SADDLE USED BY COLUMBIA RIVER INDIAN WOMEN. FROM MAJOR O. CROSS, U.S.A.". THIS IS PROBABLY THAT SPECIMEN, MAKING IT A VERY EARLY SPECIMEN OF SADDLE FROM THE COLUMBIA RIVER REGION." IN 1849 THE COLLECTOR WAS QUARTERMASTER FOR A MILITARY EXPEDITION TO OREGON. SEE THE MARCH OF THE MOUNTED RIFLEMEN, RAYMOND W. SETTLE, ED., GLENDALE, CA: ARTHUR H. CLARK, 1940, WHICH IS A PUBLISHED VERSION OF CROSS'JOURNAL. - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997 SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Notes
content: COLLECTOR'S DIARY ENTRY FOR SEPT.9,1849 (MARCH OF THE MOUNTED RIFLEMEN, P. 223-4) NOTES THE PREVIOUS DAY'S TRADING ACTIVITY IN OREGON'S GRANDE RONDE VALLEY. SADDLE PROBABLY COLLECTED AT THAT TIME, FROM EITHER CAYUSE OR NEZ PERCE OWNER.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Columbia River, Oregon (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E2541-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle