Dress

Museum number:
2-5580
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3746 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.88
Description:
Woman's, yellow stained buckskin; fringed with weasel skins; heavy geometric beading on bodice and shoulders in multi-colors; thread sewn; ornamented with brass springs/beads; flannel patches with beads.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Taxon:
Mustela
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
For dancing ceremonies. Probably associated with Motoki Society (John Hellson; Manitoba Museum of Man & Nature, letter 1971). Probably goes with 2-5579 (headress), 2-5581 AB (moccasins), and 2-5583 (leggings). According to Adolph Hungry Wolf
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
111 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-714, 15-719. Exhibited: "UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971
Loans:
S1964-1965 #111: Oakland Public Museum (June 1, 1965–June 7, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-5580, described as Woman's, yellow stained buckskin; fringed with weasel skins; heavy geometric beading on bodice and shoulders in multi-colors; thread sewn; ornamented with brass springs/beads; flannel patches with beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-5580, described as Woman's, yellow stained buckskin; fringed with weasel skins; heavy geometric beading on bodice and shoulders in multi-colors; thread sewn; ornamented with brass springs/beads; flannel patches with beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-5580, described as Woman's, yellow stained buckskin; fringed with weasel skins; heavy geometric beading on bodice and shoulders in multi-colors; thread sewn; ornamented with brass springs/beads; flannel patches with beads.

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