Part Of Clothing Set: Pair Of Mittens
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Dec 1866
name: label: Collector
content: Bernard R. Ross
label: Donor Name
content: Bernard R. Ross
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TRIBE YUKON RIVER INDS. HAN KOOTCHIN".
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 (under # ET1857C) http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=6, retrieved 8-13-2012: Mittens (see related objects tunic E1857-0 and moccasin trousers E1857-1) Extracts from discussion with Elders 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) (see web page cited above for the full entries): Eliza Jones: These are short moosehide mittens. And it looks like it's the kind for dress-up because of the beads all around the edge, its fringe. Judy Woods: And it doesn't have lining. Eliza Jones: It has a caribou-skin string that goes around the neck, about forty-eight inches. Around home when we make mittens, we make it with yarn, and then we put a yarn across here too. You see it on a lot of the old pictures where there's a string across. Judy Woods: So you won't lose your mitts.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River, Arctic Coast, Canada (not certain) / United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Han (Han Hwech'in)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00095
label: USNM Number
content: E1857-2
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mitten