Woven Shawl Trade Cloth
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, USNM, MAY 1947: "A 19 1/2" (MAXIMUM WIDTH) X 46" (MAX. LENGTH) PIECE OF LIGHT OPEN-MESH FABRIC WITH WOVEN WARP STRIPE DESIGN COMBINING TWILL AND GAUZE WEAVE WITH 2 1/4" GAUZE END STRIPE AND TWO 1 5/8" 3/1 TWILL TO THE LEFT STRIPE, BORDERED BY 1/8" TWILL SILK STRIPE SPACED BY 7/8" STRIPE IN GAUZE WEAVE HAVING YARNS GROUPED FOR SHEERNESS; STRIPE EFFECT IN REMAINDER OF FABRIC PRODUCED BY REGULAR REPEAT OF 2 1/2 INCH GAUZE STRIPE SPACED WITH 7/8" GAUZE STRIPE HAVING YARNS GROUPED FOR SHEERNESS; PROBABLY MACHINE WOVEN ON A POWER LOOM; COTTON AND SILK WARP AND 100% WOOL WEFT; YARN DYED WITH NATURAL DYES, BASIC COLOR TAN; 2 1/4" SELF FRINGE ON ONE END; PART OF GOSSAMER SHAWL. PROPER NAME: SHAWL-GOSSAMER. FABRIC-GRENADINE. THIS TEXTILE PROBABLY WAS MADE IN ENGLAND." 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: E8864-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shawl
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 49.5 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: 117 cm