Dance Apron - Shaman's Blanket Waist Robe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Dec 1903
label: Collection Date
content: 1903
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LOAN LOWIE MUSEUM 12/31/1964, LOAN RETURNED FEB 15, 1966. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13, 1987, LOAN RETURNED NOV 25, 1988. ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #N16, P. 136." Illus. Fig. 8, p. 28, and Fig. H, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. There is a photo of this object on display in the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, USNM Negative No. 16465. See Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 62B, Folder 12, Image No. SIA_000095_B62B_F12_010 .
label: Notes
content: Emmons' handwritten list in accession file describes this object in this way: "No. 9. "Kate" - A Chilkat blanket waist robe which was found in the possession of an old shaman of the "Tahltan" people living at Tahltan 100 miles up the Stickheen [Stikine] River from its mouth. It was originally made at Chilkat (the village of Kluckwan) [a.k.a. Klukwan] and was carried in trade to Wrangel [Wrangell] + traded up the river. The design represents a beaver sitting up [,] it is both realistic and conventional, the leather fringe is hung with the upper + lower bills of the sea parrot or puffin. It was the only piece of clothing worn by the shaman in his practice."
label: Notes
content: Fringe includes pendant puffin beaks and thimbles.
label: Notes
content: The term 'Shaman' is a western term. The term ixt is preferred.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Aug 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Chilkat
label: Culture
content: Tahltan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 042081
label: USNM Number
content: E224417-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Apron