Child's Fur Cap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PART OF GRAVE ESCORT GOODS, CHEYENNE CHILD'S BURIAL. CONSISTS OF BAND OF BEAVER FUR, WITH CROWN, TIES AND LINING OF BLACK TAFFETA. TECHNICAL IDENTIFICATION OF THE TEXTILE MADE BY MISS WINDHORST, DIV. OF TEXTILES, USNM, MAY 1947. "TAFFETA, A LIGHT, A SMOOTH, GLOSSY, CLOSE, WEIGHTED FABRIC IN PLAIN WEAVE WOVEN ON A POWER LOOM; THREAD COUNT 200 X 124 WITH WARP THREADS MUCH FINER THAN WEFT THREADS MAKING A SURFACE OF THE FABRIC RIBBED WITH WARP ALONE SHOWING; SKEIN-DYED OR PIECE DYED WITH NATURAL LOGWOOD DYE; USED AS THE TIES, CROWN, AND LINING OF A FUR CAP. THIS TEXTILE COULD HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND OR IN THE UNITED STATES"." SEE B.A.E. 1ST ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 162-3.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Walnut Creek, Near, Kansas, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001622
label: USNM Number
content: E8867-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat