Apron Item Number: 16/2356 from the American Museum of Natural History
Publications
OBJECTS OF EXCHANGE: SOCIAL AND MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION ON THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NORTHWEST COAST. GLASS, AARON EXHIBITION CATALOG, 2011, Publisher: BARD GRADUATE CENTER
CHIEFLY FEASTS: THE ENDURING KWAKIUTL POTLACH. JONAITIS, ALDONA EXHIBITION CATALOG, 1991
Exhibitions
OBJECTS OF EXCHANGE: SOCIAL AND MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION (BARD GRADUATE CENTER/AMNH NORTHWEST COAST STUDY GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 2011)
CHIEFLY FEASTS: THE ENDURING KWAKIUTL POTLATCH (AMNH, NEW YORK, NY, USA, 2011)
Item History
- Made in Fort Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
- Collected by George Hunt and Franz Boas
- Received from Morris K. Jesup
What
- Name
- Apron
- Identification Number
- 16/2356
- Type of Item
- apron
- Material
- wool cloth, cotton cloth, glass bead and puffin bird beak
- Overall
- length 69.0 cm, width 51.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Field Collector
- George Hunt and Franz Boas
- Received from
- Morris K. Jesup
Where
- Holding Institution
- American Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Fort Rupert, British Columbia, Canada