Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Dec 1887
label: Collection Date
content: 1850 to 1853
name: label: Collector
content: John R. Bartlett
label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles Rau
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles Rau
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "178911-SIMILAR TO 44 ANTE [E178910]. 178911: ILLUS. HNDBK. OF N. AMER., VOL. 10, SOUTHWEST, FIG. 9, PG. 158." Information from "Textiles of the American Southwest" webpage entry on this artifact: Belt, Pima. Collected by John Russell Bartlett in Arizona, ca. 1850. Dimensions: 80 in. without fringe, 92 in. with fringe (warp) x 2.25 in. (weft). Technique: Warp-face double weave. Thread count: Warp = 49/in.; Weft = 9/in. Fibers: Warp = 2-ply cotton thread, natural white, S-spin, Z-twist; 1-ply handspun wool yarn, vegetal-dyed yellow, Z-spin; 2-ply handspun wool yarn, vegetal-dyed blue and red, S-spin, S-twist. Weft = 2-ply cotton thread, natural white, S-spin, Z-twist. Design: End panels consist of white stripes (four on one end, five on the other). The main panel has three parallel white zigzag lines through the center flanked by dotted white, blue, and red triangles and framed by red, yellow, and blue stripes.
label: Notes
content: List in accession file indicates E178910 - E178916 were collected by John Russell Bartlett, "... who obtained them while Commissioner to determine the boundary line between the United States and Mexico (1850-53). The articles, excepting the arrows, were procured from the Pima and Cocomaricopa Indians on the river Gila, among whom Mr. Bartlett resided some time. Their villages adjoin. ..."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gila River, Southern, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham; Akimel O'otham)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019931
label: USNM Number
content: E178911-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt