Old Woman's Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS SPECIMEN ALSO HAS CAT. NO. 358,815 BY MISTAKE, BECAUSE WHEN IT CAME BACK IN THE EVANS COLLECTION IT MEANT THAT IT HAD BEEN EXCHANGED BY SOMEONE IN THE MUSEUM, AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GIVEN A NEW NUMBER. IT WILL BE CARRIED UNDER ITS ORIGINAL CAT. NO."
label: Notes
content: Per John C. Ewers, this old woman's upper garment was made of two colors - red and blue - of striped bed/mattress ticking cloth. See Ewers, John C. "CLIMATE, ACCULTURATION, AND COSTUME A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S CLOTHING AMONG THE INDIANS OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS." Plains Anthropologist 25, no. 87 (1980): 63–82. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25667588.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States (not certain) / Mexico (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Comanche (Numunuu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001317
label: USNM Number
content: E6993-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress