Mittens 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bernard R. Ross
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "*DOUBLE ENTRY UNDER CAT. #572."
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=8, retrieved 8-26-2012: Mittens, Gwich'in Athabascan. From discussion with Phillip Arrow, Trimble Gilbert, Eliza Jones and Judy Woods at the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, 5/17/2004-5/21/2004. Also participating: Aron Crowell (NMNH), Kate Duncan (Arizona State University) and Suzi Jones (AMHA). Eliza Jones, Koyukon, identifies the mittens as caribou or moosehide; fringed with caribou skin; fringe partly wrapped with quills; decorated with ocher on the cuffs and seams. She and Trimble Gilbert, Gwich'in, note that the mittens are unlined, and that the bead and fringes are not practical for working, so that these are probably dance mittens.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River, Alaska / Yukon, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kutchin (Gwich'in, Dihjii Zhuh)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00095
label: USNM Number
content: E2017-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mitten
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 24.5 cm