Rain Sash
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Apr 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: Benham Indian Trading Company
notes: label: Notes
content: Possibly misnumbered. There are two sashes, both marked with number 230105 (now tracked as E230105-0 and E230105-1), but the ledger book says there should only be one sash. Therefore, it is likely that one of them is misnumbered, but the ledger book gives no description, drawing, or measurements which would allow us to match the number to the object. This sash (-1) does not match the description on the main part of the catalog card (the "wedding" sash description on the back of the card is this object), and the other one (-0) does, but it is likely that the objects were (mis-) numbered well before this description was written. It is also possible that one of the two was originally 230106, which is otherwise missing, but again, the ledger book does not give a description for that number. This one is thicker, made entirely of off-white cotton (?), and made with a sprang technique on a loom. At both ends, large yarn-wrapped spheres of cornhusk are threaded through the warp ends, at the top of the long braided fringe. In December 2015, Zuni weaver Aric Chopito viewed this sash, which he called a rain sash. He noted that the spheres (which he called "rings") were made of cornhusk, wrapped with yarn.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Southwest, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042507
label: USNM Number
content: E230105-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sash