Buffalo Headdress Used In Dances
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
label: Collection Date
content: 1865 to 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COLLECTED BY SURGEON DR. C. C. GRAY AND DR. WASHINGTON MATHEWS THROUGH THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM ACCORDING TO J. C. EWERS (4/12/69). ACCORDING TO OBITUARY IN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, MATHEWS WORKED AMONG MANDAN AND OTHER UPPER MISSOURI GROUPS, 1865-1972, ESPECIALLY AT FORT BERTHOLD, N.D.."
label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: PROVENIENCE IS UNCERTAIN, BUT THE COLLECTOR, DR. MATTHEWS, WAS POSTED FROM 1865-7 FORT UNION AND FORT BERTHOLD, DAKOTA TERR.; 1867 ALSO FORT SNELLING, MINN., FORT WADSWORTH, DAKOTA, 1867 (JULY) TO JUNE 1868; 1868-9 FORT RICE, DAKOTA, POST SURGEON. COLLECTOR DR. GRAY WAS POSTED 1866-7 FORT RANDALL, DAKOTA TERRITORY; 1867 ALSO FORT BUFORD, DAKOTA TERRITORY; 1867-1868 FORT STEVENSON, DAKOTA TERRITORY; 1868-1869 FORT SULLY.
label: Notes
content: Listed in original AMM catalog as #131, Head Dress used in the Mandan Buffalo Dance and worn at the same time with the shield.
label: Notes
content: See shield E10449.
label: Notes
content: George Catlin depicts Mandan buffalo masks/headdresses in several artworks, including # 440 Buffalo Dance, Mandan, 1835-1837 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/buffalo-dance-mandan-3962 , # 505 Bull Dance, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony, 1832 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/bull-dance-mandan-o-kee-pa-ceremony-3975 , and Cartoon Collection, Cart. No. 171 Buffalo Dance (Mandan) https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.50390.html .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Dakota Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mandan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8431-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object, Horn To Horn
content: 46 cm
label: Length - Object, Horn Tip To Lowest Hair Fringe
content: 110.5 cm
label: Depth - Object, Deformation On Proper Right Snout To Bottom Of Box
content: 18.5 cm