Woman's Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The dress is of worked skin. The bottom sides terminate in fringes. There are tin danglers along the outside edge near the bottom. The front of the dress at the neck has a braided scalp (?) attached. There are also ribbons attached by thongs at the shoulders."
label: Notes
content: Possible scalp attached to dress examined 9-15-2009 by Dr. Douglas Owsley. Both he and Dr. JoAllyn Archambault question the association of the "possible scalp" attached to this woman's dress. Per Dr. Archambault, scalps are associated with men, not women. Therefore, this may not be an actual scalp, but may be a human hair braid only that is secured by the beaded textile? Would need further scientific examination to check for the presence of scalp tissue before this question could be definitively resolved.
label: Notes
content: Results of 2013 analysis of hair from the possible scalp could not determine if it was human or not.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Oct 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Comanche (Numunuu)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E357963-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress