Garters Pair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "11/1964 THESE ITEMS WERE ONCE CALLED "HEAD BANDS" OR CRUPPERS BUT DEFINITELY IDENTIFIED AS GARTERS BY NORMAN FEDER. CENTRAL PORTION OF A PIECE OF FUR-COVERED SKIN FOLDED OVER LENGTHWISE, ON ONE SIDE OF THE LOWER END IS FASTENED A LONG TRIANGULAR PIECE OF RED WOOL, DECORATED WITH DOUBLE WAVY LINE OF QUILLWORK, DOWN THE CENTER, BLUE SATIN EDGING AND WHITE SEED BEADS ON THE MOST OUTSIDE EDGE. AT OTHER END IS ALSO RED WOOL, QUILL DECORATED, AND WITH BELLS. FEATHER ON ONE SIDE. *FEDER SAYS THE QUILL DESIGN IS ONE MOST FREQUENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH IOWA SPECIMENS. VERY RARE SPECIMENS. REFER TO CAT. NO. 2482 FOR SIMILAR PAIR OF LATER DESIGN, ALL WOOL. LOAN: DENVER MUSEUM MARCH 15, 1965. REFER: WM. H. MINER: "THE IOWA", 1911, FRONTIS ILL, WHICH SHOWS THESE BEING WORN. ALANSON B. SKINNER: "MEDICINE CEREMONY OF THE MENOMINI, IOWA, AND WAHPETON DAKOTA WITH NOTES (ON OTHER TRIBES)", INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS, *VOL.4, (1920), PL. 16 (OPP. P. 228) WHICH SHOW SAME DECORATION ON MEDICINE BAGS. *HEYE FOUNDATION."
label: Notes
content: Entered in the orginal ledger catalog as "dress ornament" from the War Department with the location given as Missouri R. Valley. Length: 35". Note slightly differing designs on each garter.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Iowa (Ioway, Bah Kho-je, Baxoje)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2468-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Garter