Object Record
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Metadata
Accession number |
2004.043 |
Object Identification Number |
2004.043.003 |
Object Name |
Skirt |
Donor |
Wiese, Lola (Mrs. Glen) |
Description |
Roughly ankle-length skirt. Predominately made from a grayish-brown wool, with layers of color towards the hem. From layers of color are as follows: a line of white, a bar of burgundy, line of orange, a wide stripe of blue that has two stripes of red and green inside, a line of gold, bar of burgundy, and a line of white, before one more bar of the grayish-brown. Black edging at hem. Waistband is made from light brown linen; the top looks uneven like it was remove from something. Perhaps it was originally a dress that was cut down? The waistband along the proper back opening has light blue fabric. Top edge is machine sewn with white thread. Body of skirt has wide pleats. Interior of the hemline lined with a fabric that has blue and red vertical stripes. |
Dimensions |
L-33.25 Dia-17.5 inches |
Made By |
Jensen, Mette (Andersen) |
Creation Date |
c. 1880s to 1900s? |
Place Of Origin |
Denmark |
Owned By |
Jensen, Mette (Andersen) |
Used By |
Jensen, Mette (Andersen) |
Material |
wool/linen |
Associated People |
Jensen, Mette (Andersen) |
Search Terms |
Jensen, Mette (Andersen) Taanum Spalding, Michigan Bowbells, North Dakota Burke County Luck, Wisconsin Polk County |
Given In Memory Of |
In Memory of John and Dora (Jensen) Petersen |
Provenance |
This skirt belonged to, and was handmade by, the donor's grandmother, Danish immigrant Mette (née Andersen) Jensen. Mette brought it with her when she immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1880s. The museum's collection also contains two nightgowns made by Mette (2004.043.001 and .002). Mette (née Andersen) Jensen was born in either 1865 or 1866 in Taanum, near Randers, Denmark. Her father was Anders Thomsen. Mette came to the U.S. at about age 19 as a bride in the late 1880s, and intially lived on a farm in Spalding, Michigan, before moving to Bowbells, North Dakota. Mette and her husband had two children that lived, Dora and Jens, and one foster son. After the death of her husband in 1919, Mette remiained in North Dakota for some time. She then moved to Luck, Wisconsin, and lived with her uncle, Anders Hansen, whom she and her husband had helped years before when he had first arrived in the U.S. Anders Hansen was later a pastor in Elk Horn, Iowa. |
Images |
123\2004043003-5.JPG |
Date Received by Museum |
07/20/2004 |
Collection |
Danish Immigrants / Danish Immigrant Lives (Gen.) |