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Skin armor
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
Materials Moose hide, Elk hide, Sea Lion hide, Pigment
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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