Pad Saddle
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1849 to 1850
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Howard Stansbury
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BUFFALO HUNTER'S SADDLE, J.C. EWERS. ILLUSTRATED IN EWERS, THE HORSE IN BLACKFOOT INDIAN CULTURE PLATE I." FROM CONDITION REPORT FOR HALL 9 TAKEDOWN (C. VALENTOUR 3/1998): "PADDED BUCKSKIN SADDLE W/ NO POMMEL OR CANTLE. DECORATED W/ QUILLWORK MEDALLIONS ON SADDLE. EDGES DECORATED W/ QUILL BORDER. EACH CORNER DECORATED W/ STRIP OF BUCKSKIN FRINGE & DYED QUILL WRAPPING & 2 FLAPS DECORATED W/ QUILLS & WHITE GLASS BEADS. TOP OF SADDLE IS ATTACHED W/ PIECE OF BUCKSKIN COVERING THE GIRTH LOOPS. ILLEGIBLE WRITING ON UNDERSIDE OF THIS PIECE. ONE BUCKSKIN THONG ATTACHED TO ONE END. ONE LARGE COPPER ALLOY BELL ATTACHED TO A PIECE OF FRINGE IN ONE CORNER." OBJECT NAME CHANGED FROM "BUFFALO HUNTER'S SADDLE" TO "PAD SADDLE" PER C.GREENE 12/14/1998.
label: Notes
content: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PIECE WAS WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF ANTHROPOLOGY COLLECTIONS LAB PHOTO FILE PRINT BY CURATOR JOHN C. EWERS, DATE NOT GIVEN: "BLACKFOOT PAD SADDLE. COLLECTED BY CAPT. HOWARD STANSBURY ON EXPEDITION TO GREAT SALT LAKE, 1849-50. CATALOG OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE 1855: INDIAN PILLOW STUFFED WITH HAIR FROM THE FOREHEAD OF THE BUFFALO, FROM THE BLACK FEET INDIANS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS; BROUGHT FROM THE GREAT SALT LAKE BY CAPT. STANSBURY." FROM THIS EWERS NOTE, IT APPEARS THAT THE SADDLE WAS PART OF THE COLLECTIONS TRANSFERRED FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE TO THE SMITHSONIAN IN 1861 OR 1862. POSSIBLE ACCESSION NUMBERS INCLUDE 81 OR 135.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E2656-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 47.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 31.5 cm