Part of Clothing Set: Moccasin Pants or Trousers Item Number: E168297-1 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "BEADED BUCKSKIN."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. E168297-0 Shirt and E168297-1 Moccasin trousers are both on loan.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=262 , retrieved 11-29-2011: Moccasin pants Tlingit chiefs and nobles wore fringed and beaded moccasin-pants made from tanned caribou hide. The clothing was acquired through trade with the Tahltan, Tutchone, Ahtna, and other Athabascan peoples. Bands of colorful trade beads recreate old-style designs formerly made with dyed porcupine quills. See also the remarks for the shirt from this clothing set, E168297-0. The Sharing Knowledge website entry on the shirt notes that its beadwork style is probably Interior Tlingit or Tahltan.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA ?
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Alaska, USA ?
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Part of Clothing Set: Moccasin Pants or Trousers
- Identification Number
- E168297-1
- Type of Item
- moccasin trouser
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit ? or Athabascan (Athabaskan) ?
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA ?
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA ?
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072