Ornamented Skin (Probably Horse Ornament)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made of two double (two thicknesses) pieces of skin; each with cut fringes at base wrapped with quills and each decorated on outside with quill in double-curve and leaf designs. Edging of small,white, seed beads. Lozenge shaped piece (quilled) attached to rt. piece. The two large pieces connected at lower edges (one side) by a stuffed, tubular piece skin; and the two connected near top by a quilled piece of skin. Appears not to have been a pouch. Perhaps too short for a horse crupper; may be a decorative head ornament for a horse - J.C. Ewers. Feb. 1948." Identified as a crupper by Ned and Jody Martin 10-4-2005. Illus. Fig. 87, p. 506, in "The Origins of Floral-Design Beadwork in the Southern Columbia River Plateau, by Steven L. Grafe, Doctoral Dissertation for the University of New Mexico, 1999. Identifed by Grafe as "Eastern Plains crupper (fragment), before 1852."
label: Notes
content: Decoration includes floral quillwork.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386544-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Crupper