Accompanied by a letter from June 13, 1934 written by the owner of the dress. It reads in part:
"My darling Mary Eleanor,
....I always intended to leave my Indian dress to your dearly-loved Grandma, who was my closest friend in the Indian service, but she went home first, and it seemed as if the one who was so very precious to her would be the one to have to have it. The little girl who owned it was in my schoolroom. Her father's name was Roman Nose, and I understood they were Southern Cheyennes. The girl's school name was "Amanda". We were at the Fort Hill school. I always associated their tribe with Margaret Hill in Carter's book 'The Price of the Prairie,' which your Grandma once gave me, autographed by the author. I was at Fort Hill during the early years of this century. I once found from a picture in Webster's dictionary that the long pendant shells belonged to a little sea creature on the Pacific Coast. The Cheyennes evidently like the trinkle of those little metal cylinders they put on the fringe at the bottom....I remember the man and boys had them in the bunch of the buckskin fringe at the back of their moccasins."