Blanket, Eider Duck Skins
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Aug 1992
name: label: Donor Name
content: Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design
notes: label: Notes
content: DOUBLE-SIDED PATCHWORK OF EIDER DUCK AND POSSIBLY OTHER DUCK SKINS. PIECED WORK, PELTS SEWN TOGETHER EDGE TO EDGE. FRONT: FIELD LIGHT BROWN SHADED INTO IVORY DOWN FEATHERS UNPATTERNED EXCEPT FOR THE ROUNDED EDGES OF THE SEWN TOGETHER PELTS. OUTER BORDER: RECTANGULAR APPLIQUED PELTS OF ORDINARY FEATHERS IN ALTERNATING PATTERN OF ONE BROWN AND ONE BLUE-GRAY ON PALE GREEN WITH BLACK ACCENTS. BACK: UNPATTERNED LIGHT BROWN SHADES. ONE EDGE TORN. HOLE IN FIELD AREA ON FRONT. MADE FOR SALE. ACCORDING TO THE CURATOR, WILLIAM FITZHUGH, IT IS FROM WEST GREENLAND, EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 May 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: West, Greenland
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Greenland Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378797
label: USNM Number
content: E425648-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blanket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 216 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 139 cm