Gauntlets
- Museum number:
- 2-6482a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21026482a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- x-2675 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Dancing gauntlets set with puffin bills, long; fur trimmed cuffs; gauntlets are rawhide. Loose tag inside gives data in pencil.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; St. Michael
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Materials:
- Feather (material), Fur (hair material), and Quill (spine material)
- Taxon:
- Rangifer tarandus caribou
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Worn at festival...shaken in time to the music." According to Elizabeth Goodwin, these were used in the Wolf Dance.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 61 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-