Skin Skirt

Item number E221178-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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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."