Bridle Trimmings
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Feb 1894
label: Collection Date
content: 1873 to 1885
name: label: Collector
content: James M. Haworth
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Interior
notes: label: Notes
content: Per Ned and Jody Martin 10-4-2005, this is an over bridle or headstall. Note re color digital photos: Neg. # 2006-726 is Overall view of object; Neg. # 2006-727 is Detail of Center Drop.
label: Notes
content: Illustrated Fig. 4.28, p. 72 in Cowdrey, Mike, Ned Martin, Jody Martin, Nakia Williamson, Paul M. Raczka, and Winfield Coleman. 2012. Horses & bridles of the American Indians. Nicasio, Calif: Hawk Hill Press. Identified there as Nez Perce woman's headstall, 1860s; wool and muslin cloth, cotton seam binding, glass seed beads, silk ribbon, conical brass tacks, brass hawk bells. Women's headstalls of this structural type were described as early as 1831 by Capt. Benjamin Bonneville. By 1900, both sexes used this style, with a wide brow band and triangular brow pendant.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 17, p. 118 in Christopher T. Green, "A Stage Set for Assimilation: The Model Indian School at the World's Columbian Exposition," Winterthur Portfolio 51, no. 2/3 (Summer/Autumn 2017): 95-133. https://doi.org/10.1086/694225 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nez Perce (Nimiipuu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027833
label: USNM Number
content: E168411-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headstall