Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1930.784 A-F: 'Cree (Plains)'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card for 1930.784 A-F: 'The dress of a young girl. It should be noted that although the child who owned this suit was only about five years old, the money paid for the suit was regarded by her parents as being hers. Her father was unable to sell the suit until after she had consulted her mother.'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Context (Related Documents)
Brown, Alison K. 1998. Catalogue of the Rymill Collection in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. MAA Archives FA5/1/12. Copy of the Rymill Collection binders which were created by Alison Brown funded by a Crowther-Beynon grant
Event Date
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Robert Rymill with his brother John Rymill and Donald A. Cadzow during the Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies in 1929.
Event Date 1929
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Costume was displayed in the Maudslay Hall until 1986.

Event Date 25/11/1992
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Child's dress made of 8 pieces of buckskin with short sleeves with dropped shoulders and short slits under the arms. Scalloped hem. V-neck with hide tier, pulled through and knotted. Decorated with four painted yellow rosettes with hide attachments on the front below the waist, and three on the reverse. A number of small tears have been repaired.

Alison Brown.

Event Date 1998
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (References)
Brown, Alison K. 2014. First Nations, Museums, Narrations: Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies. Vancouver: UBC Press., p177 and fig 24
Event Date 2014
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Amendments / updates)
Language- Algonquian speakers
Language group affiliations were previously recorded in the cultural group field but this has now been removed.
Event Date 27/3/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
The object image and details were taken from the Rymill Collection binders which were photocopied to produce the unpublished "Catalogue of the Rymill Collection in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology" by Alison K. Brown, 1998, (MAA Archives FA5/1/12).
Event Date 30/3/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Conservation (Pest Debris Removed)
CON.2015.1641 | Pest Debris Removed
Event Date 30/3/2020
Author: Kirstie French

Context (Amendments / updates)
Note that a separate entry exists for the coat, under 1930.839, although it was accessioned originally as 1930.784 B.

[There is some confusion between 1930.784 B and 1930.839. 1930.784 B is a child's dress while 1930.839 is a child's blue coat and they are therefore completely distinct items. 1930.839 may have originally belonged to the same child's outfit as the one accessioned 1930.784, but this is unclear. Katrina Dring 30/03/2020]
Event Date 30/3/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Child's dress made of eight pieces of buckskin with short sleeves. Scalloped hem; arms open at the bottom except for two stitches; slit from the collar downwards with hide tie on each side of the slit at the neck opening. Decorated with four painted yellow rosettes with hide attachments on the front below the waist, and three on the reverse. A number of small tears have been repaired.
Event Date 16/1/2025
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2025.6135 | Freezing
Event Date 20/1/2025
Author: Kirsty Kernohan