Buckskin Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975. OLD LABEL: "MADE OF BUCKSKIN; ORNAMENTED WITH HAWK FEATHERS, DEER HOOFS AND FRINGE." ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 8F, PG. 299." Handbook caption identifies as "Elaborate feathered buckskin skirt made from two pieces of hide,with separate fringed strips. Two rows of buckskin thongs on the front and back of the skirt hold split feathers, deer hooves, and squirrel and chipmunk tails."
label: Notes
content: Listed as Girl's dress in Fowler and Matley (1979) "Powell's (1878:3) catalog lists the feathers as 'Butno sp. [Buzzard Hawk], Circus sp. [Marsh hawk], and Colaptes Mexicanus' [sic; probably c. cafer, Red-shafted flicker]." [Fowler and Matley (1979) p. 48]
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Northern, Goose Creek
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00070
label: USNM Number
content: E19855-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 63.5 cm