Decorative Band (opuvan) from a Man's Dancing Coat
Unidentified Koryak maker
Western Arctic
Arctic
late 19th century
Fur (reindeer, seal, beaver) mosaic on reindeer skin, embroidered using slit-threading and edge-to-edge layering
Overall: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York
14.1.4460
Geography
Place Made: Russia, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Accessory
Research Area
European History
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015
Russian 38.23, Imagining Siberia, Tatiana Filimonova, Spring 2023
Provenance
Collected by the Jessup Expedition, about 1897, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York; received by present collection in Exchange #3, 1914.
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