Robe
- Museum number:
- 1-13813
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010013813
- Accession number:
- Acc.325
- Description:
- Woven rabbit skin blanket. Dozens of pelts tied together with thin strips of natural cotton fabric. Very large.
- Donor:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection place:
- Needles, San Bernardino County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; San Bernardino; Needles
- Culture or time period:
- Mohave
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- February 1908
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Robes (main garments)
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- 1908
- Context of use:
- Used as robe. "Rabbit skin robes were used by most Indians of the far West for winter bedding and cloaks.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Legacy documentation:
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