Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Sep 1990
name: label: Collector
content: Phyllis J. Bill
label: Donor Name
content: Phyllis J. Bill
notes: label: Notes
content: T-SHAPE DRESS OF NAVY BLUE WOOL CLOTH, MACHINE-STITCHED; TRIANGULAR GUSSETS SEWN INTO SIDES OF SKIRT; CAPELIKE SLEEVES OPEN AT BOTTOM WITH FRAGMENTS OF FORMER GREEN AND RED RIBBON? BORDER DECORATION; FOUR RED RIBBON TIES AT NECK; FRONT AND BACK BODICE DECORATED WITH 8 CURVED LATERAL ROWS OF DENTALIUM SHELLS ALTERNATING WITH ROWS OF RED, GREEN AND BLUE FACETED AND GLOBULAR GLASS BEADS AND GOLD TUBULAR GLASS BEADS; FRONT HAS FRINGE OF GOLD TUBULAR GLASS BEADS, SOME WITH GOLD COLOR METAL TOKEN? PENDANTS, BELOW LAST DENTALIUM ROW. ACCORDING TO DONOR, DRESS WAS ONLY WORN ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS, AND ORIGINALLY BELONGED TO DONOR'S GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, WELAHILAKIN (1832-1898). DRESS DATES TO LATE 19TH CENTURY, ACCORDING TO DR. WILLIAM MERRILL. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, SEE ACCESSION FILE. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 12, Plateau, Fig. 10, p. 413.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oregon, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cayuse
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 374703
label: USNM Number
content: E425600-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress