Woman's Dance Mittens
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Jan 1868
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1976."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/248 , retrieved 1-23-2020: Dance Mitts. A pair of woman's dance mittens. The mitts have no separate thumbs. Tassels made of fur strips that are coloured red on one side are sewn to the back of the hand and at the tops of the fingers. The cuffs are decorated with shorn white and dark bands of skin, and with a red coloured wolverine fur trim. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/19: Special clothing is often used today when participating in drum dances. These items that were identified by MacFarlane as dancing mitts show that similar practices were followed in the 1860s.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00010
label: USNM Number
content: E5135-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dance Mitten