Menstrual Veil

Object Number:	70-9-496
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Naskapi Barren Ground Band
Provenience:	Canada Labrador
Culture Area:	Subarctic Culture Area
Section:	American
Materials:	Hide Paint
Length:	80 cm
Credit Line:	Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970
Other Number:	NA1803 - Collector Number

Description

Hide, fringed, and painted with red, blue, and white pigment. Ties are sewn on at either end. Note on tag accompanying object, perhaps typed by Pennypacker: "New style Menstruation vale [sic]. The vale is not worn after its first use. Worn during her first period. Collected by F.G. Speck 1933..."

Bibliography:

[Other] Wm. D. Morley, Inc. Inventory and Appraisement - Personal Property - The Estate of Samuel W. Pennypacker, 2nd, Dec'd. - Haldeman Road Schwenksville, RD 1 Penna. October 15, 1968.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 26