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Metadata
Accession number |
2002.144 |
Object Identification Number |
2002.144.006 |
Object Name |
Dress |
Donor |
Eagleton, Lois |
Description |
Dress. Part of Arta Pedersen's Camp Fire Girls uniform. Short-sleeved dress is intended to look like an American Indian dress. It is army-issue greenish-brown in color and has a rounded neckline with curving zig-zag line done in gold thread and round blue beads inside each point. Below that, outlining the curve of the zig-zag line is a row of tiny round brown beads. This same thread and bead pattern is found at the end of each short sleeve. On the chest, just below the center of the neckline, are three bead patterns. At the center are three round gold beads with one red cylindrical bead above. To the proper right of that is a sort of "J" formation done with round faceted red beads. To the proper left of the gold beads is a star done in tiny round gold beads. Stair-stepping down each side on the front are 1/4" long brown beads and tiny clear circular ones. This design stops about 9" below the armpit. Underneath this stair-step design is another, this time done in small round brown beads. Below the brown round beads on the proper right is a campfire design outlined in the 1/4" brown beads and tiny round brown ones. The inside of the design--the log and fire portion--are colored in with paint of some sort. On the opposite side, on the proper left, is an outline of a teepee done in the same manner. Below that is a stair stepped design of repeating white, gold, lightly blue, and brown tiny round beads. At the hem of the dress, just above the fringe, are two straight rows of gold stitching and a row of round blue beads down the center (the same blue beads used at the neckline and sleeves). Slits along sideseams, running up from hem--slits are 8" long. Proper left slit pinned with straight pin and the proper right split pinned with green safety pin. The only decoration on the back is along the neckline--the same pattern as on the front--and the same hem decoration as on the front. Just above the hem are three swastika forms--the middle and proper right one are done in the same blue beads as along the hem. The proper left one is done in tiny gold beads and four round blue ones. (These are probably referencing the Navajo design, rather than the Nazi symbol, but the word swastika is the most recognizable descriptive word.) |
Dimensions |
W-28 L-40 inches |
Made By |
Pedersen, Arta |
Year Range From |
1919 |
Year Range To |
1922 |
Place Of Origin |
USA/NE/Cozad |
Owned By |
Pedersen, Arta |
Used By |
Pedersen, Arta |
Material |
cotton/beads |
Associated People |
Pedersen, Arta Eagleton, Lois Christiansen, Ejner |
Search Terms |
Pedersen, Arta Eagleton, Lois Christiansen, Ejner Camp Fire Girls Cozad, Nebraska Dawson County Lexington, Nebraska |
Given In Memory Of |
In Memory of Ejner and Arta Christiansen |
Provenance |
This Camp Fire Girl's dress was made by and worn by the donor's mother, Arta Laurine Petersen. It was part of Arta's Camp Fire Girl uniform. Arta was a Camp Fire Girl between 1919 and 1922 in Cozad, Nebraska. The museum's collection contains an original photograph of Arta in her full Camp Girl Fire uniform (2002.144.007). Arta was born March 8, 1905 in Lexington, Nebraska. She married Ejner Christiansen on November 18, 1929, and they had two children. Arta died on July 24, 2005, at the age of 100. |
Images |
060\2002144006.JPG |
Date Received by Museum |
09/19/2002 |