shirt
- Museum number
- Am1972,Q.14.c
- Description
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Shirt; sewn of hide; roughly T-shaped shirt with frint along underside of arms, down sides and across bottom; porcupine quillwork sewn across top of arms and around neck; tassels of leather (with some fur still attached) decorated with feathers and metal bells hanging down from quillwork; image of buffalo and horse painted on lower portion on one side; buffalo and two birds on lower portion on opposite side.
- Dimensions
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Length: 150 centimetres
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Width: 191 centimetres
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Depth: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Attached label (printed): "Christy Collection. Received from Jeffs. 1 July 1893." No further information; not noted in Christy "Additions" indices.
Register addition "Plains, Blackfoot". see JCH King `First Peoples, First Contacts' British Museum Press 1999
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This costume has been the focus of academic interest and features in several studies of Native American Plains art. Most notably in Colin Taylor 'Catlin's portrait of Iron Horn: an early style of Blackfeet shirt' in Plains Anthropologist 1986, 31(114): 265-80; in Colin Taylor 'Analysis and classification of the Plains Indian ceremonial shirt: John Ewers' influence on a Plains material culture project' in Fifth Annual Plains Indian Seminar in Honor of Dr. John Ewers eds. George H. Horse Capture and Gene Ball 1981: 11-38; in Colin Taylor 'Saam: the symbolic content of early northern plains ceremonial regalia' Verlag fur Amerikanistik, 1999.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1988 15 Jan-1 May, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1988 1 Jul-1 Nov, Museum of Civilization, Lorne Building, Ottawa, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1999 25 Jun-2011 2 Mar, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Canadian Plains"
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1972,Q.14.c
