Blouse, Woman's
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Aug 1994
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Candace S. Greene
notes: label: Notes
content: BLACK CLOTH GATHERED AT THE CHEST. DECORATED WITH YELLOW AND BLACK PATCHWORK STRIPS AND MATCHING YELLOW COMMERCIAL RIC-RAC ACROSS THE CHEST, AROUND THE SLEEVES, AND YELLOW AND BLACK RIC-RAC AND PATCHWORK AROUND THE BOTTOM OF THE BLOUSE. THE BACKING OF THE PATCHWORK BAND AT THE BOTTOM HAS BEEN SLIT OPEN, THEN ROUGHLY TACKED BACK TOGETHER--PERHAPS TO REMOVE SOME SORT OF BACKING. ACCORDING TO DR. WILLIAM STURTEVANT, CURATOR OF NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, THIS ITEM WAS MADE FOR SALE BY FLORIDA SEMINOLES - (EITHER THE SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA OR THE MICCOSUKEE TRIBE OF FLORIDA) - AND WAS PROBLY SOLD IN A SEMINOLE-RUN SHOP IN FLORIDA, SELLING TO NON-INDIANS. ALSO ACCORDING TO DR. STURTEVANT, THIS STYLE DATES FROM ABOUT 1975 (+/- 10 YEARS).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Florida, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Seminole
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 400214
label: USNM Number
content: E426279-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blouse
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 70.5 cm
label: Width - Sleeve To Sleeve
content: 93 cm