Quilled Armbands
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "White and orange quilled bracelet with quilled tassles, horsehair, fur strips, and a row of blue beading. CL403. Loan: Mansfield Art Center, 3/5/1980, returned: 5/2/1980." When NHB Exhibit Hall 9, case 19.1 was taken down in 2004, an unnumbered armband in that case, ET15406, was found to be the mate of ET1180. The number for the armband from exhibit was then changed to ET1180 as well so that the pair could be together. The exhibit label from Hall 9, presumably written by John C. Ewers?, described the piece in this way: "Porcupine-quilled arm bands were worn by male dancers among the Sioux. This one has pendants of deer hair and weasel skin." No visible catalogue numbers were found on either armband. It should be noted that armbands #E326087 are missing and *seem* to fit the description of the ET1180 armbands. However there is no evidence to confirm that this is the number for the T number armbands so they are being left as a T number for now. - F. Pickering 7-22-2005
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Plains (not certain), United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1180-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Armband