Shirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: A perforated or pierced shirt. From card: "Shirt of dressed skin. The tag says it is a medicine war shirt. The shirt is decorated with cutwork; it is fringed at the ends of the sleeves and at the bottom. There are strands of human hair attached at the under portion of each arm. The ends of the sleeves have a portion of brass beads running around them. At the neck and shoulders are emine skins. There is a band of fur running around the bottom. Card attached to the specimen (1951) states "Blackfoot medicine war shirt. Judge Shorty White Grass." Note: Shorty White Grass, born ca. 1828, was a minor chief of the Buffalo Chip band of Piegan, who later succeeded Boy as head chief of that band. He was a noted warrior, and became a judge of the Indian Court on the Blackfeet Reservation, Montana. He died about 1926. (J.C. Ewers - 1951)".
label: Notes
content: See also E165449, a hide painting with the war exploits of Shorty White Grass.
label: Notes
content: Original tag with artifact says: "253 Blackfoot Medicine War shirt. Judge Shorty White Grass". This original tag is tag of artifact dealer Grace Nicholson, based on comparison to Grace Nicholson tag with Catalogue No. E360278.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Piegan (Piikani)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358276-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt