Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1930.686: 'Bungay' and 'Ojibwa'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Context (Related Documents)
BU 57 refers to the headdress. Rymill's field notes describe it as 'Buffalo horns. Part of a headdress. Goes with BU 26.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1930.686 A-E: 'A: shirt, probably made from buckskin. B & C: leggings, made from buffalo hide. D: breech cloth. E: headdress, which is not complete.'



Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1930.686: 'A Medecine Man's [sic Medicine Man's] dress. Leggings of buffalo hide, shirt probably of buckskin. The headdress is not complete.'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

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 (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 1998
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
The breechcloth is made of dark blue wool and decorated on one side with red and faded blue ribbons which also dangle off the sides of the cloth making a fringe. This piece has many holes in it possibly a result of insect damage.
Event Date 5/1/2005
Author: maa

Context (References)
Brown, Alison K. 2014. First Nations, Museums, Narrations: Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies. Vancouver: UBC Press. 
Event Date 2014
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Breech cloth or apron decorated with ribbons. Rectangular length of dark blue woven woollen cloth with knap, possibly a corduroy; hemmed at one end and decorated with chevrons of alternating blue and red silk ribbon; ends of ribbon hang free at centre and edges of cloth. Part of an outfit worn by a ritual specialist or shaman, 1930.686 A-E.
Event Date 15/1/2025
Author: Katrina Dring