Red Trade Blanket Three Points
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PART OF GRAVE ESCORT GOODS, CHEYENNE CHILD'S PLATFORM BURIAL. TECHNICAL IDENTIFICATION BY MISS WINDHORST, DIV. OF TEXTILES, USNM, MAY 1947:- "A 56" X 67", FULLED, NAPPED, REVERSIBLE, FABRIC WOVEN IN 2/2 TWILL WEAVE TO THE RIGHT ON A SPECIAL BLANKET LOOM WHICH ALLOWS A WIDTH OF 100" OR MORE; THREAD COUNT 24 X 24; 100% WOOL YARNS MADE OF SHORT STAPLE FIBERS WHICH PRODUCE A COARSE UNEVEN YARN WITH WITH PROTRUDING SHORT ENDS; HAVING A SOMEWHAT TIGHTLY TWISTED WARP YARN FOR THE FOUNDATION OF THE BLANKET, AND A LIGHTLY TWISTED WEFT YARN SUITED TO NAPPING; PROBABLY YARN DYED WITH NATURAL DYES; BASIC COLOR DARK CARDINAL RED WITH ONE 3 3/4 INCH AND ONE 3 1/4 INCH END STRIPES PRODUCED BY THE USE OF BLUE-BLACK WEFT YARNS HAVING ONE 3 1/2 INC AND TWO 3 3/4 INCH NARROW (3/8 INCH)APPLIED SIDE STRIPES, 2" FROM THE END STRIPE AND SPACED AT 1 3/4 INC AND 2 1/2" INTERVALS, EFFECTED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF BLUE-BLACK YARNS ON ONE SIDE AREA OF WHAT PROBABLY WAS CONSIDERED THE RIGHT SIDE AS INDICATED BY THE SLIGHTLY HEAVIER NAP; UNBOUND ENDS; USED PROBABLY AS A BLANKET. PROPER NAME: WOOL BLANKETING. STROUD." SEE B.A.E. 1ST ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 162-3.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Walnut Creek, Near, Kansas, 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: 001622
label: USNM Number
content: E8857-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 142 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 170 cm