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Object Number
985-27-10/60239
Display Title
Shirt
Descriptions
Object Description
Sioux shirt. Mostly painted blue w/ some yellow. Panels of beadwork attached, white ground w/ geometric designs in blue, red, green and metallic gold seed beads. Light brown locks of hair partially wrapped w/ quills(?) attached. Neck is trimmed w/ red cloth. 109.3x66.2 cm.
On visual inspection hair may be human.
Inventory Description
Leather shirt, painted green top, banded beadwork, hair and quill fringe
Classification
- Shirt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1899?
Culture
- Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Dimensions
Overall: 104 x 168 cm (40 15/16 x 66 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Collector
William H. Claflin, Jr.
(? - 1985)
Collector
Jacob Paxson Temple
(1900-1920 - ?)
Donor
Estate of William H. Claflin, Jr.
(1985)
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Media Restricted
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|
United States
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| 985-27-10/60237 | Shirt made from 2 wolf skins |
Shirt
|
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| |
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Media Restricted
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Shirt
|
United States
| |
|
Media Restricted
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Shaft, modified
Shirt |
United States
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 39-30-10/18187 | Scalp Lock Ornament |
Ornament
|
United States
| |
| 985-27-10/60238 | Sioux war shirt. Painted in blue and red. |
Raw Material
Shirt |
United States
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 985-27-10/60452.1 | Shirt, fringed, green pigment & beaded band across chest, hair & fur pendants |
Shaft, modified
Shirt |
United States
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 985-27-10/60200 | Crow medicine necklace. Cloth with human hair and quills, horsehair, fringed bag |
Shaft, modified
Necklace |
Montana?
| |
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Media Restricted
| 985-27-10/60268 | Hair Extension |
Shaft, modified
Ornament |
Montana
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 985-27-10/60119 | Club |
Club
|
United States
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 38-44-10/12791 | Chief's skin shirt trimmed with locks of human hair |
Shirt
Shaft, modified Raw Material |
North America
| |
|
Media Restricted
| 985-27-10/60107 | Hair ornament |
Adornment
|
United States
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