Coat

Museum number:
2-5541
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005541
Alternate number:
3607 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Description:
Coat; blanket; printed cotton neck binding; rosette and geometric strip beading; ermine tail fringed.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coats (garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
Ceremonial" "Boy's " (?) Cat. states that this goes with -5542 and -5543, but moccasins do not seem to match, and leggings definitely go with -5646 (fide Kathryn Crabtree, 1978).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 63 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4394. Exhibited: "UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971
Loans:
S1977-1978 #39: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 23, 1978–April 11, 1978)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coat, accession number 2-5541, described as Coat; blanket; printed cotton neck binding; rosette and geometric strip beading; ermine tail fringed.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coat, accession number 2-5541, described as Coat; blanket; printed cotton neck binding; rosette and geometric strip beading; ermine tail fringed.

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