Hide; red wool stroud on cuffs and inner wrist area; white glass seed beads sewn along stroud edges; red stains on both mittens; a) has hole in palm and index finger area, top and bottom, b) has hole in small finger area, top and bottom.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Subarctic, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Subarctic
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1868-1890
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mittens (handwear)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Worn as a form of protection against the cold.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
a)— length 27.4 centimeters and b)— length 27.2 centimeters
Comment:
References: pp. 115: "The Athapaskans: Strangers of the North," Ottawa, Canada, 1974.