Coonskin, cut in strips and wound about strings after the manner of the ordinary rabbit skin robe.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Sherwood Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Sherwood Valley
Culture or time period:
Pomo
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Robes (main garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Small blankets thrown about shoulders. Large ones are wrapped entirely about body, over left shoulder and under right shoulder.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 5.5 centimeters and width 51 centimeters
Comment:
Typed on card, "S.A. Barret field notes, p. 114... Says they made these blankets formerly of coon skin in preference to rabbit because rabbit was so easily torn. Coon much tougher.