Part Of Clothing Set: Pair Of Mittens

Item number E1857-2 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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FROM CARD: "TRIBE YUKON RIVER INDS. HAN KOOTCHIN".Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact (under # ET1857C) http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=6, retrieved 8-13-2012: Mittens (see related objects tunic E1857-0 and moccasin trousers E1857-1) Extracts from discussion with Elders Phillip Arrow, Trimble Gilbert, Eliza Jones and Judy Woods at the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, 5/17/2004-5/21/2004. Also participating: Aron Crowell (NMNH), Kate Duncan (Arizona State University) and Suzi Jones (AMHA) (see web page cited above for the full entries): Eliza Jones: These are short moosehide mittens. And it looks like it's the kind for dress-up because of the beads all around the edge, its fringe. Judy Woods: And it doesn't have lining. Eliza Jones: It has a caribou-skin string that goes around the neck, about forty-eight inches. Around home when we make mittens, we make it with yarn, and then we put a yarn across here too. You see it on a lot of the old pictures where there's a string across. Judy Woods: So you won't lose your mitts.

Item History

Made
Collected by Bernard R. Ross
Received on December 27, 1866

What

Name: Part Of Clothing Set: Pair Of Mittens
Identification Number: E1857-2
Type of Item: mitten

Where

Holding Institution: National Museum of Natural History
Made in: “Canada (not certain) / United States (not certain): Arctic Coast” ?
Collected in: “Canada (not certain) / United States (not certain): Arctic Coast” ?