Chilkat Legging
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PROBABLY A CHILKAT DANCE LEGGING HAVING STANDARD CHILKAT MOTIFS AND BORDERED BY FRINGED LEATHER. SOME REPAIRS - FRAGILE - REMNANTS OF PUFFIN BEAK ATTACHMENTS. ILLUS.: THE SPIRT SINGS CATALOGUE; GLENBOW-ALBERTA INSTITUTE; 1987, #N17, P. 136. LOAN GLENBOW NOV 13, 1987; LOAN RETURNED." Illus. in Fig. F, after p. 48 in The Chilkat Dancing Blanket, by Cheryl Samuel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Illus. Fig. 5, p. 46 in Pasco, Katie, 1997, "The Tsimshian Connection in Weaving the Painted Formline," American Indian Art Magazine, 22(2):44-51. Attributed there as Tsimshian, early nineteenth century. Mountain goat wool, yellow-cedar bark, leather, porcupine quills, yellow, black and green dye.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Coast, United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit, Chilkat (?)
label: Culture
content: Tsimshian (Ts'msyen) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET663-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Legging
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 41 cm