Child's Knit Stockings Pr.
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 BURIAL. TECHNICAL IDENTIFICATION BY MISS WINDHORST, DIV. OF TEXTILES, U.S.N.M. MAY 1947 - "A 21 GAUGE, COARSE, HARSH FABRIC, KNIT IN WEFT KNIT ON STRAIGHT FRAME KNITTING MACHINE; ON THE RIGHT SIDE THE LOOPS MAY BE DISTINGUISHED BY A CHARACTERISTIC V-SHAPE, THESE V-S FITTING INTO EACH OTHER IN A VERTICAL DIRECTION, THIS SIDE OF THE FABRIC IS ALWAYS WORN OUTERMOST AS IT PRESENTS THE MOST EVEN SURFACE WHILE IT IS ALSO THE MOST PERFECT AS ALL IMPERFECTIONS ARE DRAWN TO THE BACK OF THE CLOTH; ON THE WRONG SIDE WILL BE NOTED THE CHIEF FEATURE IS A SERIES OF INTERLOCKING SEMI-CIRCLES WHICH HAVE A DISTINCTLY CROSSWISE DETERMINATION GIVEN TO THEM; 100% WOOL; SOMEWHAT EVEN, LIGHTLY TWISTED YARNS MADE OF RATHER SHORT STAPLE FIBERS; PROBABLY YARN OR STOCK DYED WITH NATURAL DYES; 1/8 - INCH ALTERNATING BROWN AND TAN WEFT STRIPES, WITH A SINGLE ROW OF BROWN KNIT AND 1-INCH PLAIN TAN BORDER AT TOP; MADE OF A 5-INCH WIDE PIECE CUT TO FORM THE STOCKING, HAVING MACHINE CHAIN-STITCH 1/8" SEAMS. PROPER NAME: CHILD'S CUT-SEWED STOCKING. THIS TEXTILE COULD HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND OR IN THE UNITED STATES." SEE B.A.E. 1ST ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 162-3.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001622
label: USNM Number
content: E8866-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sock