Consists of three separate parts -- neck bustle, back bustle and back panels, all feathered and hand-sewn throughout. (a) Neck bustle: closely set circles of various sized striped brown feathers, radiating from small cloth - encircled mirror, yellow flicker feathers around mirror, ring-neck pheasant tail feathers tipped with glued-on breast feathers form outer circle, all attached to a cowhide piece with buckskin ties. (b) Back bustle consists of eight parts all attached to a large piece of cowhide, top part is the same as neck bustle, on each side a row of pheasant tail feathers and red-dyed breast feathers tied onto a strip of buckskin which also forms a tied. Circlet and two side panels are mounted on top of a pheasant skin (breast, back and tail feathers) with another row of tail feathers and red-dyed breast feathers with buckskin ties. At top of bustle are two short stick with various sized feathers tied to form bundles, some breast feathers dyed green and purple, shore buckskin ties around lower edge of cowhide. c) Back panels consist of two lengths of bark blue trade cloth sewn onto a stick; pheasant tail feathers tied to buckskin strips are attached to cloth in groups of six, red-dyed breast feathers across the top of panels.
Donor:
Joel Rosenthal
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Joel Rosenthal
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Production date:
ca. 1900
Accession date:
January 5, 1988
Context of use:
Dance costume.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 47 centimeters, length 93 centimeters, and width 61 centimeters
Comment:
References: Robbins, Chandler S., Bertel Bruun & Herbert S. Zim. A Guide to Field Identification Birds of North America, Golden Press, New York, 1966, pp. 44-48, 70-72, 90, 160, 180.; Koch, Ronald P. Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians, University of Oklahoma Press, Norma, 1977, p. 162, fig. 61.