Dancing Gloves (1 Pair)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Oct 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Riley D. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Well made gloves, finger backs with designs representing the knuckles and nails; cuff of fur."
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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=680 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: Gloves. Yupik men traditionally wore gloves whenever they danced. These reindeer skin dance gloves are made in a Siberian pattern, with gores of colored skin between the fingers. The cuffs are trimmed with brown fur, probably wolverine, and embroidered with dyed reindeer hair stitching. Straight and zigzag lines of red and blue thread accent the finger joints, and fingernails are outlined in red.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055962
label: USNM Number
content: E280162-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Glove
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23 cm