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Object Number
38-44-10/12854
Display Title
Ghost Dance shirt of fringed cotton cloth
Descriptions
Object Description
Ghost Dance shirt of fringed cotton cloth. Figure of a thunderbird on the back; crescent with star on front; eagle feather; ochre red and blue stripes along shoulders; marking on inside right shoulder; shirt stained brown. At the time of the Wounded Knee and Standing Rock uprising.
Inventory Description
Shirt, dyed cotton, fringed around neck, sides, painted star in front
Classification
- Shirt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1890
Culture
- Sioux?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials
Cotton, Pigment, Feather
Dimensions
Overall: 84 x 81 x 1 cm (33 1/16 x 31 7/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
38-44-10/12854
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Henry H. Richardson in memory of Theodore Jewett Eastman, Class of 1901, A.B. 1901, M.D. 1905, 1938
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman
(1912-1913)
Donor
Mrs. Henry H. Richardson
(1938)
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