Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Collector
content: Rev F W. Smith
label: Collector
content: Victor J. Evans
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Chippewa?. Collector Rev. F.W. Smith, according to otherwise blank tag attached to specimen, but no record of such a collector. Black cotton, sleeves of same fabric, with bands of red ribbon applique and blue cut beads, shoulder straps of beadwork with vari-colored floral designs on white background, hem of 2 rows of alternating maroon ribbon applique and blue cut beads above strip of white cotton, attached leggings of red flannel with borders of 3 rows of alternating brown ribbon applique and blue cut beads." A Chippewa style strap dress, with sleeves.
label: Notes
content: Cory Willmott, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, notes: Rev. F.W. Smith is possibly Reverend Frederick W. Smith (ca. 1849 - 1932), an Ojibwa preacher at White Earth Reservation under Bishop Whipple. There is a photograph of him in the Bishop Whipple collection (Collection III.40.259) of the Minnesota Historical Society: http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10297975&return=brand=cms (accessed 6/20/2017). Smith's wife Sophie was a beadwork artist. Frances Densmore collected a similar dress and sleeves at White Earth (catalog numbers E357965 and E357904 in the Victor Justice Evans collection Accession 113605), and therefore it seems possible that this dress was also collected by Densmore. It is also possible that this dress was part of the Victor Evans accession as well.
label: Notes
content: Note that hair roach EC422 has purple yarn with it. Yarn has tag attached with the name "Rev. F. W. Smith"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: White Earth Reservation (not certain), Minnesota (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET951B-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress