Moosehide Gloves with Floral Beading, Bordered with Beaver Fur
Tanana
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
collected 1903-1904
Moose hide, beaver fur, glass beads, and pink thread
Overall: 13 3/8 in. (34 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Col. Alfred T. Clifton, Class of 1927P
42.15.7811
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Object Name
Clothing: Accessory
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Lt. Col. Alfred Theodore Clifton (1875-1944) with the U.S. Army Signal Corps aboard the cable ship Burnside, St. Michael, Alaska, 1903-1904; given to present collection (through his son, Alfred Theodore Clifton, Jr. (1906-1996), Class of 1927), 1942.
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