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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?
  • Sioux
  • Crow?
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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