War Shirt
62-16-2
From: United States of America | Wyoming | Yellowstone National Park
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 62-16-2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Hidatsa (uncertain) |
| Provenience | United States of America | Wyoming | Yellowstone National Park |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Date Made | ca.1900 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Deerskin | Leather | Quill | Pigment | Fur |
| Technique | Quillwork |
| Description | Thin, poorly tanned deer or antelope skin with heavier quilled leather band extending over each shoulder and down back and front; quilled band entire lenght of each sleeve; quilled flap front and back at neck; diamond dyes used on quills, yellow predominating with design of 3-pointed purple bands with red, green, and purple stripes at ends; floral motif at wrist; quill plaiting technique producing double-diamond effect; lond strips of winter weasel and fringe attached to tone edge of each quilled band; short cut fringe at shirt bottom; sides unsewn. |
| Length | 70 cm |
| Width | 150 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. T. F. D. Wainwright, 1962 |
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