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Object Number
08-7-10/72883
Display Title
Skin armor
Descriptions
Object Description
Skin armor, not for fighting. Depicts bear design; tanned. Fringed on one side, front painted with stylized black and red design. Hide Armor. One of the chief items traded to the northern Indians for sea otter furs were "clemmons," elk hides for shirts used as armor. Traders obtained these hides from southern villages along the mouth of the Columbia River and the Strait of Juan de Fuca and shipped them north.
Inventory Description
Hide vest armour, painted blk and red bear figure, fringed, perforated
Classification
- Armor
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1908 or ealier
Culture
- Teikweidi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Dimensions
Overall: 101 x 87 cm (39 3/4 x 34 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
08-7-10/72883
Credit Line
Exchange with George Gustav Heye, 1908
Provenance
Collector
Lt. George Thornton Emmons
(No information)
Exchange participant
George Gustav Heye
(01/01/1908)
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