Dress

Museum number:
2-19045
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020019045
Accession number:
Acc.854
Description:
Buckskin dress with brown, black, yellow and white porcupine quill embroidery; seed pendants.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Erethizon dorsatum
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
Worn by woman.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Loans:
S1961-1962 #26: Decorative Arts Department (UC Berkeley)/Anna Hadwick Gayton (November 16, 1961–November 20, 1961), S1967-1968 #100: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (February 20, 1968–March 4, 1968), S1968-1969 #49: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (November 21, 1968–November 21, 1968), S1974-1975 #11: Denver Art Museum (August 26, 1974–January 28, 1975), and S1976-1977 #88: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (June 20, 1977–September 8, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-19045, described as Buckskin dress with brown, black, yellow and white porcupine quill embroidery; seed pendants.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-19045, described as Buckskin dress with brown, black, yellow and white porcupine quill embroidery; seed pendants.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-19045, described as Buckskin dress with brown, black, yellow and white porcupine quill embroidery; seed pendants.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-19045, described as Buckskin dress with brown, black, yellow and white porcupine quill embroidery; seed pendants.

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