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Object Number
99-12-10/53047
Display Title
Side-fold dress
Descriptions
Object Description
Woman’s quilled side-fold dancing dress, decorated with horizontally arranged cowrie shells, beads, metal buttons, and tinklers. Pieced together with the tanned side out. Horizontal lanes of orange, white, blue, brown, and yellow porcupine and bird quill embroidery fill the skirt of the dress; each lane of quillwork is punctuated by red wool tufts wrapped with sinew. Additional object description notes under conservation report Jan 20 1999.
Inventory Description
Hide dress, beads, brass buttons, shell, tinklers and hair trim, quillwork/wool
Classification
- Dress
Department
Ethnographic
Date
ca. 1800-1825
Culture
- Lakota?
- Cheyenne?
- Cree
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Additional Geographic Terms
Missouri, Upper
Materials
Bison hide , Bison Sinew , Quill , Wool , Hair , Glass , Brass , Shell , Tin , Bead , Cotton
Dimensions
Overall: 124.5 x 75 cm (49 x 29 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
53047
Credit Line
Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Owner
Peale Museum
(Unknown - Unknown)
Owner
David Kimball
(Unknown - 1873)
Owner
Thomas Jefferson
(Unknown - Unknown)
Collector
Lt. George Christian Hutter
(Unknown - Unknown)
Collector
Meriwether Lewis
(Unknown - Unknown)
Collector
William Clark
(Unknown - Unknown)
Previous owner
Previously owned by
Boston Museum
Donor
David Kimball
Donor
Augusta K. Horton
Donor
L. Cushing Kimball
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