Woman's Shirt Summer Dress Of Indians

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Object Details

Collector

Mr. Robert Kennicott

Donor Name

Mr. Robert Kennicott

Notes

FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: HNDBOOK OF N. AMERICAN INDIAN, VOL.6, SUBARCTIC, FIG. 2., PG. 520." 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 a dress, part of a woman's summer outfit (with E885), Gwich'in, tanned caribou hide, red ochre, glass beads.

Illus. Fig. 64C p. 94 and 65B p. 95 in Van Kampen, Ukjese. 2012. The History of Yukon First Nations Art, Phd dissertation, Leiden University. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/18984 .

Record Last Modified

10 Mar 2022

Specimen Count

Culture

Kutchin (Gwich'in, Dihjii Zhuh)

Accession Date

1863

Accession Number

000177

USNM Number

E884-0

Object Type

Dress

Length - Object

129 cm

Place

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

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Data Source

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

Topic

Ethnology

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d4357323-9117-4fe3-b2ee-210d91b2531a

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8484949