Bone Slat Armor Vest
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Partial tunic with top yoke made of thick sealskin sewn together with leather thongs. Perforated bone slats (9 cm x 2 cm) are sewn together with double rows of thong stitching and attached to the front of the yoke, two rows on both sides. Leather tunic closes at the top with wooden toggles. Illus. under No. CL-596 in Fitzhugh & Kaplan: Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo, 1982, S.I. Press; fig. 265; p. 221. This piece was also at one time given # T1893. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 306, p. 230." Identified in Crossroads catalogue as North Alaska Eskimo plate armor from Bering Strait. Card indicates this was at one time called number C596 or CL596, indicating treatment by Anthropology Conservation Lab. It also seems to bear number 8/71.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bering Strait (not certain), Alaska (not certain), United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1886-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Armor
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 40 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 36 cm