Woman's Belt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Mar 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF BUCKSKIN, OVERLAID WITH STRIPES OF ORNAMENTATION IN QUILL WORSTED, RED WHITE AND BLUE. *IDENTIFIED AS "HAN" BY CORNELIUS OSGOOD, SEPT., 1970, SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF INDEX ENTRY "TINNE, FORT RELIANCE, UPPER YUKON, E. W. NELSON."
label: Notes
content: Note: The Han identification made by Osgood may not be correct, because Nelson's records indicate this object is from Tanana River, Alaska. The Fort Reliance, Upper Yukon provenience cited as the basis for the Han identification actually applies only to E201099, not to E201100.
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=659, retrieved 8-24-2012: Belt, Lower Tanana Athabascan. Porcupine quills are stitched to this Tanana caribou skin strap with red and blue [and yellow] embroidery silk or wool. Quills for decorative work were clipped to remove the barbs and left natural in color or dyed using alder bark, berries, or coloring soaked from commercial crepe paper.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Tanana River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034807
label: USNM Number
content: E201100-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 124.5 cm