Woman's Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen
label: Collector
content: William Courtenay
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Mildred M. Hazen
notes: label: Notes
content: For a similar two-skin dress without adornment beyond red cloth patches at bottom tabs, compare to NMAI 128931 (Arikara) and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 27502 (Mandan). This dress is made of hides from bighorn sheep, identifiable by the shaved tail hair retained as a narrow border of fur at the neck. Other than fringe, the only adornment is reddish paint on the yoke and patches of red trade cloth near the hem. There are two catalog cards for this dress. One shows the identification changed from Sioux to "Shoshone?" The other shows it changed to "Bannock?" The presence of several dresses of this type collected among the Three Affiliated Tribes suggests a regular pattern of trade in this form of dress, typical of the Intermontane tribes. Either the garments, the hides, or the style may have come from the west. Culture identification changed from Shoshone to Hidatsa, Arikara, or Mandan by Candace Greene May 2017 based on a full review of the collecting history and consideration of general stylistic traits.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Buford, Williams County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa (?)
label: Culture
content: Arikara (Sahnish) (?)
label: Culture
content: Mandan (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025748
label: USNM Number
content: E154061-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress