War Shirt With Scalp Locks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Sep 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Emile Granier
label: Donor Name
content: Emile Granier
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SPLENDID SPECIMEN, ELABORATELY PAINTED, BEADED AND DECORATED WITH LONG SCALP LOCKS. ON EXHIBIT 2/1978." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "200,615. COSTUME OF WAR CHIEF OF THE ARAPAHO INDIANS (ALGONQUIAN STOCK). SHIRT, OF DEERSKIN, COLORED BLACK AND YELLOW, WITH SLEEVES; BEADED FLAP IN THE FRONT AND BACK. THE WHOLE SHIRT IS ORNAMENTED WITH CUT FRINGES, BANDS OF BEADWORK, AND A PROFUSION OF LOCKS OF HUMAN HAIR. LEGGINGS, OF DEERSKIN, COLORED YELLOW AND TERRA COTTA, AND ADORNED WITH TWISTED FRINGES AND SEED. MOCCASINS, OF DEERSKIN COVERED WITH BEADWORK. INDIAN TERITORY. 165,978; 200,615. COLLECTED BY H.R. VOTH AND EMILE GRANIER." SEE ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTION FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM EXHIBIT HALL 9, 3/98. CONDITION REPORT LOCATED IN ANTHROPOLOGY CONSERVATION LAB, MSC. D. NGUYEN 6-24-98.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034005
label: USNM Number
content: E200615-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 115 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 116 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5 cm