Mittens

Museum number:
2-71405a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210271405a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.4468
Description:
Made from canine heads with leather palms, white and black glass beads in eye areas, fur lined with blue cotton cloth around edges, tied together with braided strands of bright blue wool yarn, trimmed with pom-poms of same wool yarn. Possibly made with coyote fur, hand sewn.
Donor:
Murial Cook
Collection place:
Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Western Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Clara Hayes Gaddie Moon
Collection date:
1933-1957
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mittens (handwear)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 6 centimeters, width 18 centimeters, and length 32.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Sturtevant, William C., ed. Handbook of North American Indians, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1984, Volume 5, p. 286, Fig. 1, p. 289, p. 304, Fig. 1.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mittens, accession number 2-71405a,b, described as Made from canine heads with leather palms, white and black glass beads in eye areas, fur lined with blue cotton cloth around edges, tied together with braided strands of bright blue wool yarn, trimmed with pom-poms of same wool yarn. Possibly made with coyote fur, hand sewn.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mittens, accession number 2-71405a,b, described as Made from canine heads with leather palms, white and black glass beads in eye areas, fur lined with blue cotton cloth around edges, tied together with braided strands of bright blue wool yarn, trimmed with pom-poms of same wool yarn. Possibly made with coyote fur, hand sewn.

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