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Object Number
90-17-10/49309
Display Title
Man's buck-skin shirt
Descriptions
Object Description
Man's buckskin shirt ornamented with scalp lock and porcupine embroidery.
Inventory Description
Hide shirt, quillwork, hair fringe, painted sun Dance ceremony scene.
Classification
- Shirt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1890
Culture
- Mandan?
- Crow?
- Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Dimensions
Overall: 139.7 x 76.2 x 18 cm (55 x 30 x 7 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
49309
Credit Line
Gift of the American Antiquarian Society, 1890
Provenance
Collector
Roderick MacKenzie
(around or before 1819)
Donor
American Antiquarian Society
(1890)
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