Leather Shirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Mar 1965
name: label: Donor Name
content: Robert L. Dwight
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Porcupine quill stripes over shoulder, three panels, mostly white, but blocks of black, blue and red present. Porcupine quill strip down each arm; two quilled medallions in front and back. Pictographs of three coups in front; two behind. Black stripes across the sleeves; eight vertical red strips on bottom in front, two behind; fringed with hair tufts on shoulder and sleeve seams. This and two following items [pair of leggings # 403344B] were (probably) worn together."
label: Notes
content: Originally identified as Siouan and subsequently changed to Sioux, perhaps through error. Changed to Hidatsa in 2019 based on the distinctive style of pictorial painting, which has been identified as by the same hand as paintings on a well-documented hide collected among the Hidatsa in 1834 by Prince Maximilian Wied zu Wied. See Brownstone, Arni. 2014. “European Influence in the Mandan-Hidatsa Graphic Works Collected by Prince Maximilian of Wied.” American Indian Art Magazine 39 (3): 58–70.
label: Notes
content: Smithsonian Photographic Services Neg. # 78-12376 (and 78-12377) is view of front of shirt. Neg. # 78-12375 is view of back of shirt. Neg. #2003-37705 is a high resolution (600 dpi tiff @ 8 x 10) color digital detail shot of decoration on back of shirt depicting man with horse shield. Front and back of this object are illustrated and described in detail on p. 193 in "Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life" ed. Evan M. Maurer, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1992. It is identified there as Upper Missouri, ca. 1840.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Missouri River Upper, Plains (Northern), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 259684
label: USNM Number
content: E403344A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt