Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1930.734: 'Cree (Plains)'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in blue ink: '30.734 Cr'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1930.735 [A-B]: 'Dance Bussell [sic bustle]. Intrusive from the south, where it is usually known as a Crow.'
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

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1930.734 [A-B], in Rymill catalogue written by Alison Brown: 'Dance bustle of thick hide to which rows of eagle feathers have been attached, many of which are coming loose. Some feathers are attached to two long strips of black woollen cloth. Also attached are a number of bells and green, yellow, gold and red ribbons. A multi-coloured woven wool sash is fastened to the top of the bustle and is used to tie it to the waist. Horse hair has also been added to some tips of bustle, and twisted brass wire holds it together at the top. Wooden sticks wrapped with porcupine quills are also attached. The bustle is stored in a grey cotton bag.'
Event Date 1998
Author: maa

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

Context (Production / use)
'There was only certain ones that could wear those. Those people who have earned them...They were distinguished people only who would wear those only, for either their bravery or their good deeds to others, you know? It was only certain people, but now everybody wears them. [Powwow is] sort of commercialised.'

[Charlie Big Knife, Starblanket First Nation in interview with Alison Brown, 8.7.1999]

Event Date 8/7/1999
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

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 24/3/2020
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Cotton bag, used to store dance bustle 1930.734 A. Made from a single piece of cream cotton cloth with ends sewn together; one long edge is hemmed, possibly for a drawstring; the other edge is raw; hemmed edge has been gathered and tied with a length of red cord.
Event Date 22/1/2025
Author: Katrina Dring

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2025.6141 | Freezing
Event Date 3/2/2025
Author: Kirsty Kernohan