Sioux Saddle-Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
label: Collection Date
content: March 1870 - March 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ezra Woodruff
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ELABORATELY ORNAMENTED WITH BEADWORK. MADE OF BLUE CLOTH ORNAMENTED WITH CLUSTERS OF FLOWERS IN BEADWORK. BORDERED WITH WOOLEN TWISTED FRINGES. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Notes
content: THIS BLANKET IS NOTED IN THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM (AND SMITHSONIAN) ACCESSION LEDGER AS BEING OF PEMBINA SIOUX ORIGIN. NO ACCOMPANYING CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE COLLECTOR APPEARS TO BE EXTANT AND THE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION IS THUS UNKNOWN. THE OBJECT WAS MORE PROBABLY MADE BY THE PEMBINA BAND OF CHIPPEWA AS THEY LIVED IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF FORT PEMBINA. IT LOOKS AS IF IT IS OF CHIPPEWA MANUFACTURE (FLORAL BEADWORK ON DARK WOOL) AND ITS PRISTINE CONDITION SUGGESTS THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR TRADE WITH THE EUROAMERICAN COMMUNITY. - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997 SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Notes
content: In 2008, the original accession number, and corresponding accession papers, for this collection were found. It includes notes from the collector, Dr. Woodruff, but he does not say which tribe the saddle blanket comes from. He merely mentions that it is "a good specimen of elaborate beadwork"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pembina, Pembina County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe), Pembina (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003214
label: USNM Number
content: E13483-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle Blanket