Pair Gloves 1 Pair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "38455A & B. TWO PAIR WERE FOUND WITH THIS NUMBER AND WERE THEREFORE LABELLED A & B. L.L.L.--2/1976. A - DEERSKIN WITH FUR TURNED INWARDS. OUTSIDE COLORED REDDISH BROWN, WITH LIGHT-COLORED STRIPS ALONG FINGERS. LEFT HAND HAS 3 FINGERS, RIGHT HAS FOUR. DECORATIVE BORDER OF BRAIDED HAIR AND THREAD. B - DEERSKIN DYED RED WITH UPPER HAND OF WHITE FUR. DECORATIVE BORDER OF BRAIDED HAIR. INVENTORIED 1976."
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=560, retrieved 8-26-2012: Gloves, Deg Xinag/Deg Hit'an Athabascan. Men wear gloves for dancing and for distributing gifts at a potlatch; in traditional belief the spirit of the objects given away adheres to the gloves and attracts future wealth, enhancing the host's social reputation. These Deg Hit'an gloves are made of red-dyed caribou leather with white fur on top that was identified by Elders as a wolf's leg skin. Decorative stitching on the cuffs was done with porcupine quills.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Anvik, Yukon River, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ingalik (Deg Xitʼan, Degexitʼan, Deg Hit'an)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38455B-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Glove
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19 cm