Bead Apron
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jul 1921
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Sheldon Jackson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Ornamented with beads, fur, leather patchwork and reindeer hair. Apron made of leather edged with black fur. Certainly of Lamut Manufacture, but by Lamut living in Yakut region (e.g. Southern Kamchatka). Made for sale.: Data provided 15 Dec. '82 by Dr. Ilja S. Gurvich, Head of Northern and Siberian Peoples Dept., Institute of Ethnology, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow, through Wm. C. Sturtevant."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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=1100 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Apron. Among the Even people of eastern Siberia, traditional dress includes a richly beaded apron that is worn under a hoodless coat that opens in the front. The upper section of this apron is undecorated, while the lower part is patterned with glass trade beads, patchwork designs in dyed leather, and reindeer hair embroidery. The dark fur around the edges may be wolverine.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tungus (Lamut, Even)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 066880
label: USNM Number
content: E316630-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Apron
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 82 cm