Rabbit Skin Robe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Jul 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Berkeley R. Lewis II
label: Donor Name
content: Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Skins wrapped on cotton twine net, unlike skin coils of robes from Ute and other southwestern tribes. Robe obtained by Major Lewis in 193 from an old Chippewa woman, Shabegeziga (Cloudy Day). Her husband, Nanigaknib (Big Snake) had been chief of a small group formerly living in the vicinity but now extinct [sic] except for Shabegeziga, who had made the robe. See Densmore: Bulletin 86, B.A.E., p. 161: "The rabbit skin was cut 'round and round' in a narrow strip so that one hide made a continuous strip. The weaving was done on a warp of cotton twine, with a space of about half an inch between the rows of rabbit skin.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Jun 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Saganaga Lake, Cook County, Minnesota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 176875
label: USNM Number
content: E385733-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Robe