Leather War-Dress Plated With Chinese Coins
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1870
label: Collection Date
content: 1867 to 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Alexander H. Hoff
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: 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."
label: Notes
content: 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.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Baranof Island / Sitka, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit (?)
label: Culture
content: Chukchi (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001767
label: USNM Number
content: E9284-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Armor