Woman's Dress
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: "WHOLE DEERSKIN ORNAMENTED AT ONE END WITH CUT FRINGE, PLAIN; OTHER END WITH GRASS, ORNAMENTED FRINGE TERMINATING IN SEA SHELLS AND PINON SEEDS. ON EXHIBIT: HALL 11 9/77. INVENTORIED 1977." FROM CARD: "200,621 A. SHAWL OF THE HUPA INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK). MADE OF A WHOLE DEERSKIN, ONE EDGE CUT INTO FRINGES ABOUT A FOOT LONG. EACH ONE OF THE STRANDS IS DECORATED WITH A WRAPPING OF SPLIT ROOT, OF FERN STEM, AND AN ABUNDANCE OF PINE NUTS AND SEA SHELLS, EXCEPTING A SPACE ABOUT 3 INCHES WIDE, WHICH IS LEFT BARE TO FORM A BAND ACROSS THE TEXTURE. HERE AND THERE THESE ARE HELD IN PLACE BY A LINE OF TWINED WEAVING. THE OPPOSITE EDGE IS DOUBLED AND PROFUSELY DECORATED WITH CUT FRINGES DOUBLED AND PUT IN THROUGH EYELETS. THE WHOLE FORMS A GORGEOUS ROBE. CALIFORNIA. 200,621. COLLECTED BY EMILE GRANIER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hupa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034005
label: USNM Number
content: E200621-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt