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Object Number
99-12-10/53046
Display Title
Side-fold dress
Descriptions
Object Description
One of only two side-fold dresses known to be painted; also decorated with beads, plant fiber, and quill wrapping on lower fringe. Geometrically painted in red and brown linear bands accented by forked curvilinear designs. There may have once been a shoulder strap, though none exists now. See additional object description under the conservation report July 10 2000.
Inventory Description
Dress, painted annular design, blue bead embroidery, fringed
Classification
- Dress
Department
Ethnographic
Date
ca. 1790-1825
Culture
- Mandan?
- Plains Cree?
- Hidatsa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
Materials
Bison hide , Sinew , Bead , Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 121 x 66 x 20 cm (47 5/8 x 26 x 7 7/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Credit Line
Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Collector
Lt. George Christian Hutter
(Unknown - Unknown)
Collector
William Clark
(Unknown - Unknown)
Collector
Meriwether Lewis
(Unknown - Unknown)
Previous owner
Boston Museum
Previous owner
Peale Museum
(Unknown - Unknown)
Donor
David Kimball
Donor
Augusta K. Horton
Donor
L. Cushing Kimball
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Canada
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