Decorated Hide Of Calf
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Nov 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George F. Cooke
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PAINTED AND EMBROIDERED (ACTUALLY QUILLED). SHOWING DANCES." FIGURATIVE DECORATION.
label: Notes
content: Pictographic scenes of dancing painted on a steer hide. Band of quillwork down center. Identified as Gros Ventres, probably referring to modern Hidatsa.
label: Notes
content: This hide appears on the original list in the accession file as “painted and embroidered calf-hide, showing two dances, that of the Assinaboine [sic] and the grass dance of the Gros Ventres. $25.00." The collector used the term Gros Ventres to reference the Hidatsa in the vicinity of Ft. Buford. The hide shows what is probably an intertribal Grass Dance.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Nakoda/Nakota/Nakona) (?)
label: Culture
content: Hidatsa (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026404
label: USNM Number
content: E165054-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Painting
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 183 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 183 cm