Fish Skin Mittens
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William H. Dall
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: IDENTIFIED AS FISH SKIN MITTENS WITH SEAL SKIN PALMS BY FRAN REED, 2/1999.
label: Notes
content: 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=504 , retrieved 8-19-2012: Waterproof Mittens Salmon skin can be processed into durable, waterproof leather, and was traditionally used for boots, mittens, and pants. These Deg Hit'an mittens from Shageluk have "Eskimo-style" waterproof stitching and palms of from seal skin. They may have been made locally or traded upriver into the Yukon River basin from Yup'ik residents of the Bering Sea coast.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 4.24 p. 165 in Thompson, Judy. 2013. Women's work, women's art: nineteenth-century northern Athapaskan clothing. Gatineau: Canadian Museum of Civilization. Identified as mittens, Deg Hit'an, fish skin (backs), sealskin (palms and inner thumbs), sinew.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Shageluk, Yukon River Valley / Innoko River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ingalik (Deg Xitʼan, Degexitʼan, Deg Hit'an), Shageluk
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E8781-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mitten
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 33.5 cm