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Trousers - Part Of No. 884 Summer Dress

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    Object Details

    Collector

    Mr. Robert Kennicott

    Donor Name

    Mr. Robert Kennicott

    Notes

    FROM CARD: "OBJECT IS ILLUS.: FIG. 7, P. 117 "YUKON RIVER ATHAPASKAN COSTUME IN THE 1860'S" BY KATE DUNCAN IN FACES, VOICES & DREAMS; DIVISION OF ALASKA STATE MUSEUMS; 1987. OBJECT IS IDENTIFIED THERE AS SUMMER TROUSERS, PEEL RIVER KUTCHIN. COLLECTED 1860S BY ROBERT KENNICOTT. TANNED CARIBOU HIDE, RED AND WHITE PONY BEADS, RED OCHRE." Catalogue Nos. 884, 885, 886, 887 and 888 form a set.
    Illus. Fig. 4.48 p. 191 in Thompson, Judy. 2013. Women's work, women's art: nineteenth-century northern Athapaskan clothing. Gatineau: Canadian Museum of Civilization. Identified there as moccasin-trousers, part of a woman's summer outfit (with E884), Gwich'in, tanned caribou hide, red ochre, glass beads.

    Record Last Modified

    7 Jul 2021

    Specimen Count

    1

    Culture

    Kutchin (Gwich'in, Dihjii Zhuh)

    Accession Date

    1863

    Accession Number

    000177

    USNM Number

    E885-0

    Object Type

    Moccasin Trousers

    Length - Object

    100 cm

    Place

    Peel River / Mackenzie River (lower), Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

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    Anthropology

    Data Source

    NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

    Topic

    Ethnology

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3c11a578e-251f-41c3-b82b-34899d33643d

    Record ID

    nmnhanthropology_8484959

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