Wedding Hat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
label: Collection Date
content: 1867 to Jan 1869
name: label: Collector
content: James T. Ghiselin
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN MASON ABOM'G AMER. BASKETRY, P1. 167 FIG. 5. DESCRIBED ON PAGE 439 AS "CAT. #9040, U.S.N.M. A WOMAN'S HAT, CALLED A WEDDING HAT, AND ASSIGNED TO THE CASCADE INDIANS. IT IS DOUBTLESS SAHAPTIAN IN EVERY RESPECT IT IS MADE LIKE THE NEZ PERCE EXAMPLES DESCRIBED (U.S.N.M. 23857 & 129680)....HEIGHT, 6 1/2 INCHES; COLLECTED BY DR. JAS. F. GHISELIN. NOVEMBER 8, 1964. WILLIAM STURTEVANT." COLLECTOR JAMES THOMAS GHISELIN WAS A MEDICAL OFFICER IN THE U.S. ARMY AND SERVED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE COLUMBIA FROM 1867 - 1874. HIS DONATION TO THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM WAS SENT IN JAN. 1869. THE MATERIAL WAS COLLECTED BEFORE THIS DATE BUT MAY HAVE COME TO GHISELIN THROUGH SECOND PARTIES AS HE WAS GENERALLY STATIONED AT OR NEAR FORT VANCOUVER BETWEEN 1867 - 1869. THIS HAT APPEARS TO BE AN ORDINARY PATL'AAPA (TWINED BASKETRY HAT). - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997 SEE PROCESSING LAB ACCESSION FILE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Portland, Oregon, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cascade (Watlala)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E9040-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 16.5 cm