Buckskin Hood (Part Of Clothing Set)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 3 Jun 1925
name: label: Collector
content: Bernard R. Ross
label: Donor Name
content: Bernard R. Ross
notes: label: Notes
content: IDENTIFIED AS KUTCHIN TYPE BY JUDY THOMPSON, WESTERN SUBARCTIC CURATOR AT THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION, 1999. FROM CARD: "COVERS ENTIRE HEAD EXCEPT FACE; SOFT TEXTURE; QUILLED BAND DESIGNS. BUCKSKIN FRINGED WITH QUILLED WRAPPINGS. SEED ORNAMENTS ATTACHED TO FRINGE; WHITE COLOR. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 149 [attributed as Kutchin in publication]. PART OF COSTUME CAT. NOS. 328766-9." MATERIALS: WHITE CARIBOU HIDE, PORCUPINE QUILLS, SILVER WILLOW SEEDS, SINEW.
label: Notes
content: Clothing set E328766, E328767, and E328768 is illus. Fig. 8, p. 53 in Thompson, Judy, 1999, "Marketing Tradition: Late Nineteenth-Century Gwich'in Clothing Ensembles," American Indian Art Magazine, 24(4). Identified there: "Clothing ensemble comprised of a tunic, moccasin-trousers and hood, Gwich'in type. White caribou hide, porcupine quills, sinew and silver willow seeds. Collected by Bernard Ross, 1860. The breast band and front above the breast band are decorated with bands of loom-woven quillwork; the wrists of the tunic and the moccasin-trousers and hood are decorated with folded quills ...."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kutchin (Gwich'in, Dihjii Zhuh) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 087699
label: USNM Number
content: E328768-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hood