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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Data Source
NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
Topic
Ethnology
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmnhanthropology_8484959