Shirt
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: FROM CARD: "ORNAMENTED., WITH QUILL DECORATION, PAINTING IN BLUE, AND STRANDS OF WHITE AND RED HORSEHAIR. A NATION OF NATIONS 12/75. LOAN RETURNED AUG 1988."
label: Notes
content: George Levi, Max Bear, Joyce Twins, David Ramos, and Rebecca Risenhoover (Arapaho) 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 notes that the quillwork on this shirt makes it possibly from the 1850s, because they used quills before beads. The shirt has sacred blue paint, horse hair, both of which had to be earned to be worn. The pipe and people designs on the shirt are incredible. The pipes are very long but you can tell that the shirt has been altered, possibly for display. It is possible that the quill work could be much older- it could have been removed from another piece and then put on something else. It is guessed to be antelope hide because it's so thin. The backside of the shirt has brighter colors so you can tell it was not the side on display.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 18, p. 119 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: Notes
content: This heavily modified shirt was received without tribal identification from the collection of James Haworth, which includes materials from throughout the Plains region. At some point the identification Cheyenne? was added to the record without comment. The mistaken entry of Kansas as a location encouraged an assumed association with the Southern Cheyenne. However, the shirt is stylistically northern, as noted by a visiting Cheyenne group in 2015. It is a two-hide shirt of older style, painted all over with blue. It has been altered to reduce both width and length with cross and vertical seams on the body and modification to the length of the sleeves. The seams cut across painted tallies of pipes and human torsos. The neck flaps that extend across the center seam are replacements that do not match the quillwork on the shoulder and sleeve panels. The modifications suggest that it is an heirloom piece, altered to fit a smaller second wearer before its acquisition by Haworth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: 027833
label: USNM Number
content: E168424-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt