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Descriptions
Object Description One of only two side-fold dresses known to be painted; also decorated with beads, plant fiber, and quill wrapping on lower fringe. Geometrically painted in red and brown linear bands accented by forked curvilinear designs. There may have once been a shoulder strap, though none exists now. See additional object description under the conservation report July 10 2000.
Inventory Description Dress, painted annular design, blue bead embroidery, fringed
Classification
  • Dress
Department Ethnographic
Date ca. 1790-1825
Culture
  • Plains Cree?
  • Mandan?
  • Hidatsa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
North America
Materials Bison hide , Sinew , Bead , Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 121 x 66 x 20 cm (47 5/8 x 26 x 7 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Collector Possibly Lt. George Christian Hutter (ca. 1804)
Collector Possibly William Clark (1804-1806)
Collector Possibly Meriwether Lewis (1804-1806)
Previous owner Peale Museum (Unknown date - ca. 1848)
Previous owner Boston Museum (ca. 1848 - ca.1895)
Collector Diana Zlatanovski
Donor David Kimball (1899)
Donor Augusta K. Horton (1899)
Donor L. Cushing Kimball (1899)

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