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Object Number 99-12-10/53124
Display Title Painted "box and border" robe
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's robe of bison calf skin, painted in the "box and border" design with brown, yellow, and red pigments and a sizing. Cross-hatching is used between the design elements, some of which - for example, the branching, pronged motif - are simply impressed and filled with sizing. The tips of the robe's legs are fringed.
Inventory Description Robe, small, painted brown, yellow, red geometric design, sewn.
Classification
  • Robe
Department Ethnographic
Date ca. 1800-1850
Culture
  • Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Materials Hide, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 95 x 117 cm (37 3/8 x 46 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Owner Peale Museum (Unknown - Unknown)
Owner David Kimball (Unknown - 1873)
Collector William Clark (Unknown - Unknown)
Collector Meriwether Lewis (Unknown - Unknown)
Donor David Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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