Uintah/Ouray Reservation (not certain), Utah, United States, North America
Accession Date:
27 Jun 1901
Notes:
FROM CARD: "MADE? AND WORN BY CHI-PETA, WIFE OF CHIEF OURAY. (UTE). SENT AS AN EXCHANGE TO CAPT. WARD HUNT, SEATTLE, WASH., JUNE 12, 1930 (BEADED MOCCASINS). I.D. AS TETON DAKOTA BY DR. JOHN C. EWERS, BUT IDENTIFIED AS FROM CHIPETA (UTE). "PAIR OF BEADED LEGGINS AND MOCCASINS MADE AND WORN BY CHIPETA WHO IS CALLED THE QUEEN OF THE TRIBE. SHE WAS THE WIFE OF OLD CHIEF OURAY. SHE IS THE ONLY WOMAN WHO IS ALLOWED IN THE COUNCIL ROOM DURING A COUNCIL.""
From attached tag: Leggings and moccasins made and worn by Cho-pi-ta.
Chipeta or White Singing Bird (1843 or 1844 – August 1924) was a Native American woman, and the second wife of Chief Ouray of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe. Born a Plains Apache, she was raised by the Utes in what is now Conejos, Colorado. -Wikipedia contributors, "Chipeta," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chipeta&oldid=993611738 (accessed February 7, 2021).
