Leather War-Dress Plated With Chinese Coins Item Number: E9284-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "THOUGH THIS WAS COLLECTED, PRESUMABLY BOUGHT, IN THE TERRITORY OF THE TLINKIT PEOPLE DR. HOFF THOUGHT THAT IT WAS OF CHUKCHEE ORIGIN. ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1893; PL. 21, FIG. 1; P. 644. REF. TO U.S.N. MUS. REP. 1893. P. 643, PL. 21."Ruth Demmert, Virginia Oliver, Florence Sheakley, Alan Zuboff, and Linda Wynne made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The elders commented that they had never seen Tlingit armor like this before, and this may actually be a more decorative object. The buttons on this object were commercially made and the coins on this object were sewn on with either sinew, braided sinew, or twine. Florence commented that this object looks like it was made from mooseskin.
Item History
- Made in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected by Dr. Alexander H. Hoff in Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA between 1867 and 1869
- Received from Army Medical Museum during 1870
What
- Name
- Leather War-Dress Plated With Chinese Coins
- Identification Number
- E9284-0
- Type of Item
- armour
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit ? or Chukchi ?
- Field Collector
- Dr. Alexander H. Hoff
- Received from
- Army Medical Museum
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
- Collected in
- Sitka, Baranof Island, Alaska, USA
When
- Collection Date
- between 1867 and 1869
- Acquisition Date
- during 1870
Other
- Accession Number
- 001767