Tent Door
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Dec 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Heinrich R. Voth
label: Donor Name
content: World's Columbian Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Shape of shield design. Voth collection. Large." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Tent Door. - Arched wooden frame encased in heavy canvas cloth. Ornamented with sixteen horizontal rows of red and yellow beadwork and with quill loop pendants. Height, 4 feet. Collected by H. R. Voth."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 2.6 in Anderson, Jeffrey D. 2013. Arapaho women's quillwork: motion, life, and creativity. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Described there as a beaded tipi door in quillwork style.
label: Notes
content: Note that some or all of the "quillwork" appears to be plant fibers. See Greene, Candace S., 2015, "The Use of Plant Fibers in Plains Indian Embroidery," American Indian Art Magazine, 40(2):58-71.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Cheyenne And Arapaho Reservation, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026674
label: USNM Number
content: E165793-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Door