Sash Or Scarf Of Trade Cloth

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Sash Or Scarf Of Trade Cloth

Army Medical Museum

1869

FROM CARD: "PART OF GRAVE ESCORT GOODS, CHEYENNE CHILD'S PLATFORM BURIAL. TECHNICAL IDENTIFICATION BY MISS WINDHORST, DIV. OF TEXTILES, U.S.N.M., MAY 1947-"A 4 1/2" X 87" FABRIC IN DOUBLE WARP KNIT APPEARING AS A DOUBLE CLOTH; PRODUCED FROM AS MANY THREADS AS THERE ARE WALES; COMPOSED OF THREADS WHICH DO NOT FORM EACH LOOP JOINING THE ONE PREVIOUSLY FORMED IN THE SAME COURSE AS IN WEFT KNITTING, BUT PRODUCES IT IN THE NEXT COURSE AND THE NEXT WALE. ON THE FACE OF THE FABRIC ROWS ARE SEEN RUNNING VERTICALLY THE LENGTH OF THE CLOTH, WHEREAS ON THE BACK ROWS APPEAR TO RUN FROM SIDE TO SIDE. THIS FABRIC DOES NOT RAVEL, MADE ON A WARP KNITTING MACHINE; STOCK OF YARN DYED WITH NATURAL DYES; STRIPED PATTERN SHOWING TWO 1-INCH TAN LENGTHWISE STRIPES ALTERNATING WITH THREE 3/4" RED LENGTHWISE STRIPES; 34 MACHINE KNIT CIRCULAR STRANDS BRAIDED IN FOUR PLY CIRCULAR 7" BRAID AT ONE END AND 34 MACHINE KNIT CIRCULAR STRANDS IN 7-PLY FLAT 6" BRAID AT THE OTHER END, BOT ENDS FINISHED WITH 2 1/2" TASSELS; USED AS A SCARF OR MUFFLER, CALLED A TIPPET. THIS TEXTILE COULD HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND OR IN THE UNITED STATES." PROPER NAME: TIPPET." SEE B.A.E. 1ST ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 162-3.

11 Dec 2014

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Anthropology

Ethnology

Army Medical Museum

Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)

Smithsonian Institution

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Anthropology

Ethnology

Army Medical Museum

Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)