Woman's Dress Skin, Decorated
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Woman's dress, made of two pieces of skin (one front one back); cut of bottom, long in center, rising at sides (unlike any cut desc. by Wissler, Costumes Plains Indians, pp. 68-9). Fragments of right side and back missing; decoration primarily quillwork; two quilled rosettes over breasts (ca. 4 1/2" diam.) quilled band below; bilaterally symmetrical quilled motive in fine quillwork below; and centered 6 1/2" lower down; (composed of rosettes elaborated by graceful branch and leaf figures; elaborately beaded quilled strip further down, with cut fringe; row of tin tinklers across dress near bottom. Geometrically quilled strip at neck. Back of dress has large 5 pointed star with rosette in middle at top, center. Flanked by branches with leaf motives on them. Quill colors - blue, black, yellow and red. Possibly Ojibwa - John C. Ewers, Jan. 16, 1948."
label: Notes
content: Decoration includes floral quillwork.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386528-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress