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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?
  • Cree
  • Cheyenne?
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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