Breech Clout
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: Object has old tag stating: "Big Bow, Chicago No. 17, No. ?". See: C. Bergmann, "List of figures and costumes for exhibition at World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago", NAA MS 7217, entry No. 17, which is a list of the clothing used to dress a mannequin representing Big Bow, a Kiowa chief, at the USNM exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. A "breech cloth" is listed as one of the clothing items for the mannequin, however no catalogue number was listed for it. James Mooney is identified as the collector of the clothing for this mannequin in the Bergmann manuscript. It may therefore be assumed that James Mooney provided the breech clout for the mannequin, and it may never have been catalogued? Object is of red wool cloth, edged with blue cotton tape. Near each end it is decorated with two horizontal stripes of white cotton tape, and four tufts of red, white, and blue ribbons. - F. Pickering 4-11-2005
label: Notes
content: Breech cloth Red flannel strip edged in blue, strips of white twill tape applique, red, white, and blue ribbon streamers along sides. Not accessible for measurement. Records: Big Bow / Chicago #17. [May refer to the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago.] (T). (from: Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET16525-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Breechclout