Indian Doctor's Dance Jacket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. John B. White
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. John B. White
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MEDICINE SHIRT OF THE APACHE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK). MADE OF DRESSED ANTELOPE SKIN, ON WHICH ARE PAINTED, IN COLORS, SYMBOLIC DESIGNS REPRESENTING THE SUN AND FIGURES OF THE "KAN" OR GODS. IN FORM, THE SHIRT IS THAT OF THE MEXICAN PONCHO, AND HAS ATTACHED TO IT ORNAMENTS OF ABALONE SHELLS AND FEATHERS. ILLUS.: HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL.10, SOUTHWEST, FIG. 7, PG. 377." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY USNM EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MEDICINE SHIRT OF THE APACHE INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK.) MADE OF DRESSED ANTELOPE SKIN, ON WHICH ARE PAINTED, IN COLORS, SYMBOLIC DESIGNS REPRESENTING THE SUN AND FIGURES OF THE "KAN" OR GODS. IN FORM, THE SHIRT IS THAT OF THE MEXICAN PONCHO, AND HAS ATTACHED TO IT ORNAMENTS OF ABALONE SHELLS AND FEATHERS. ARIZONA. 21,520. COLLECTED BY DR. J. B. WHITE, U. S. A."
label: Notes
content: White's catalogue for his collection is in the National Anthropological Archives - Manuscript # 7435. This object is listed as # 21 in the manuscript, under the listing on the Arizona collections, and described as "Indian doctor's [i.e. shaman's] dance jacket, copied from a very old one in the possession of an "Apache Mohave" [i.e. Yavapai] Indn. Doctor. The original was very old and could not be purchased. No. 21 is an exact imitation drawn by the Indians."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Yavapai
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004869
label: USNM Number
content: E21520-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt