Painted Rawhide (Parfleche) Case
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 1981
name: label: Collector
content: N/A
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Marjorie M. Post
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Cylindrical rawhide case with long bucskin fringes; fine geometric designs, linear & triangular, painted in red, blue & black; type used to carry & store feather bonnets or ceremonial gear. Loaned to Hillwood 12-15-82".
label: Notes
content: George Levi of the Cheyenne delegation from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma made these comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit November 3-6, 2015. George noted that not very many Cheyenne put fringes on their parfleches, and this one is asymetrical. You could put a headdress in a case like this or you could store loose feathers. The Cheyenne still saddle stitch it the same way as this one. This parfleche is bilaterally assymetrical on either side of the central line which is unusual.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Dec 2022
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: 318782
label: USNM Number
content: E418835A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Case