Clothing Set Of Ojibwa Warrior: Knife Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Apr 1899
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From cards [for entire set, cat# 201154]: "Costume of Kway-gway-ge-way-be-nung. See photos taken by Gill. Bu[reau of] Eth[nology]. The costume consists of leggings [E201154-6] _mit a a sun_; coat [E201154-0] _bu-buck a wa i_ with singus or weasel tails; neck string [E201154-8] _las_ belt _gi gip ir un_; anklets _shi gak_ so- called from being made of skunk skin; pipe and punch----[E201154-1]; headdress [E201154-3] pa sik qua viscum, and moccasins [E201154-9] . Illus: p.68, pl. 32, Celebrations catalogue, Smithsonian Press. 1982. Inventoried 1977. Loaned to renwick 7/16/81. Returned 1983. [later note]The following items were located (and placed in a single drawer for storage) during the inventory of the Chippewa collection: 1 buckskin belt with floral beadwork, 101.8 cm long [E201154-7]; 1 pair beaded buckskin moccasins with attached cloth anklets, approx. 25 cm long [E201154-9]; 1 pair full-length buckskin leggings with strip of loom beadwork in geometric design on each ("201154a") [E201154-6];: 1 red wool breech clout, 134 by 44 cm [E201154-2]; 1 skunk skin anklet ("201154e") [E201154-8]; long tubular belt? Made of black velvet, white fur, and feathers--bunch of feathers at each end and feather roach at middle ("201154g") attached to a fur head band which in photos appears as separate piece [E201154-3]; black stone pipe bowl, 17.5 cm L., and wooden stem, 34.5 cm L. [E201154-1]; painted and beaded buckskin knife sheath, 35 cm 1., with yarn fringes ("201154-l") [E201154-5]; 2 wooden slats, about 36.5 by 9 cm, "? parts of plumebox" and 1 piece of birch bark broken into 2 pieces, @ about 35 by 11 cm ("201154f"?)" [E201154-4];
label: Notes
content: Note that the catalogue card identifies this clothing set as having belonged to Kway-gway-ge-wa-be-nung. It also references photos taken of this man by DeLancey Gill in Feb. 1899 when he was in Washington, DC as part of a Chippewa delegation. These photos are in the National Anthropological Archives. See especially NAA images BAE GN 00506B 06139300 and BAE GN 00508A 06139600, among others, which show him dressed in the clothing now Catalogue No. E201154. NAA records identify him as Gegwejiwebinung or Gaygwachewaybinanung (Trying To Throw) or Gayshiqonnayyash (Swift Feather), called Red Blanket.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Leech Lake Reservation, Minnesota, United States, 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: 034912
label: USNM Number
content: E201154-5
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife Sheath