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Object Number 69-30-10/2090.2
Display Title Coat of skin
Descriptions
Inventory Description Shirt, animal skin, zigzag quill design on chest to upper arms with fringes with blue beads and seeds, fringed with quill wrapping at bottom edges, at mid-back, and above front and back tapers, red lines of pigment in places
Classification
  • Shirt
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Northern Athapascan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Dimensions Overall: 110 × 45 × 23 cm (43 5/16 × 17 11/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2090
Provenance
Collector Capt. Edward Gustavus Fast (10/01/1867-07/01/1868)

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