Small Girl's Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 May 1953
name: label: Donor Name
content: Anonymous
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "BUCKSKIN DRESS COLORED YELLOW W/ RED DESIGNS, FRINGES COLORED YELLOW & GREEN. YOKE DECORATED W/ CROSSES, CIRCLES, & 3 BIRD-LIKE CREATURES IN BLUE PAINT. DRESS FRINGED ON BOTTOM, SIDES, & SLEEVES. NECKLINE EDGED W/ RED TRADE CLOTH & GLASS BEADS. 4 PANELS OF BEADWORK ACROSS YOKE & SHOULDERS. AN ADDITIONAL STRIP OF BEADING AROUND THE WAIST. 3 ROWS OF FRINGE ON THE DRESS, THE BOTTOM ROW HAS DEW CLAWS ON FRINGE. THE BOTTOM OF THE DRESS DECORATED W/ BEADWORK & TIN DANGLES."
label: Notes
content: George Levi of the Cheyenne delegation from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma made these comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit November 3-6, 2015. George believes this dress was made and at a later date the beadwork was added, morningstar and magpie designs. He thinks it could possibly be a repurposed Ghost Dance dress because of the cut and construction of the dress itself. There are dewclaws on the fringes. The dress could have been traded or come from someone who intermarried with an Arapaho because the Cheyenne do not participate in Ghost Dance.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai), Southern (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 198353
label: USNM Number
content: E392551-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 90 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 125 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5 cm