FROM CARD: "A=SHIRT. B=LEGGINGS."

Alan Zuboff, Linda Wynne, and Ruth Demmert made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. The group agrees that the trousers are made of caribou hide. It was likely obtained through trade because Tlingits didn't normally hunt caribou because the animals were not local. The individual stitching of the quills cannot be seen, which suggests the design work was woven on a loom and not directly onto the garment.

FROM CARD: "BEADED BUCKSKIN."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. E168297-0 Shirt and E168297-1 Moccasin trousers are both on loan.Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=262 , retrieved 11-29-2011: Moccasin pants Tlingit chiefs and nobles wore fringed and beaded moccasin-pants made from tanned caribou hide. The clothing was acquired through trade with the Tahltan, Tutchone, Ahtna, and other Athabascan peoples. Bands of colorful trade beads recreate old-style designs formerly made with dyed porcupine quills. See also the remarks for the shirt from this clothing set, E168297-0. The Sharing Knowledge website entry on the shirt notes that its beadwork style is probably Interior Tlingit or Tahltan.