Socks

Museum number:
2-6536a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21026536a@2cb
Alternate number:
x-2729 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Twined grass. Red yarn decoration
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 21 centimeters and length 26 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: "Socks of grass, very like those in Nelson from Norton Sound area, were worn. Grass socks figure in one Aleut myth recorded by Bishop Ivan Veniaminov, 1825-1834." (fide Lydia Black, 1982).
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Socks, accession number 2-6536a,b, described as Twined grass. Red yarn decoration
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Socks, accession number 2-6536a,b, described as Twined grass. Red yarn decorationDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Socks, accession number 2-6536a,b, described as Twined grass. Red yarn decorationDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Socks, accession number 2-6536a,b, described as Twined grass. Red yarn decoration

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