Skin Skirt Item Number: E221178-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Of soft deer skin, with cut fringe. Row of flannel fringe sewed on. Upper border of otter skin. Surface painted with designs. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum, 12/31/64. Returned 2/15/66."Accession record 41512 identifies this object as "skin skirt with dew-claws." See also accession file for Accession 41221, which contains information about objects from several Emmons accessions. It may contain information about # E221178? # E221178 may be the object referred to on a list at the end of that file as: "Shamans dance apron of caribou skin painted."
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Alaska, USA during 1903
- Received on September 12, 1903
What
- Name
- Skin Skirt
- Identification Number
- E221178-0
- Type of Item
- apron
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- during 1903
- Acquisition Date
- on September 12, 1903
Other
- Accession Number
- 041512