Cap
- Museum number:
- 2-19167
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020019167
- Accession number:
- Acc.854
- Description:
- Made of seal gut; red, black and yellow decoration.
- Donor:
- Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
- Collection place:
- Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Aleutian Islands
- Culture or time period:
- Aleut
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Caps (headgear)
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- 1945
- Context of use:
- Both Koniag and Aleuts adopted for use the Russian sailor hat, but made them of gut. Sometimes it is possible to distinguish Koniag vs. Aleut by color - The Aleuts used polychrome, Koniag tended to red-black-white, occasionally... (cont'd in Comments)
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 25 centimeters
- Comment:
- (cont'd from Use Context): green; Aleuts used many shades of green, blue, yellow, red and orange in addition to black and white." (fide Lydia Black, 1982). Same as 2-19166.
- Legacy documentation:
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