Wall Pocket with Beaded Seaweed or Kelp Design (Fungi Textile)
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
about 1903
Laricifomes officinalis mycelial felt, trimmed with black cotton cloth and flannel and glass seed
Overall: 8 11/16 × 5 1/8 in. (22 × 13 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dorothy Vaughan Haberman
159.68.14506
Geography
Place Made: Ketchikan, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Bag
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Publication History
Cypress Hansen, Fabric from Fungi/ Century-Old Textile Woven from Fascinating Fungus, Scientific American, Vol. 324, No. 6, June 2021, p. 21
Published References
Blanchette, R. A., D. T. Haynes, B. W. Held, J. Niemann and N. Wales. Fungal mycelial mats used as textile by Indigenous People of North America. Mycologia, 2021
Provenance
"Indian neighbors"; given to Anna Elizabeth Carlyon Von Hasslocher (1874- 1964) and Emil Alexander Von Hasslocher (1867-1946)(changed name to Edward Alexander Vaughan about 1919), Ketchikan, Alaska as a wedding gift, in 1903; given to their daughter, Dorothy Kathleen Von Hasslocher Vaughan Haberman (1903-1992), about 1956; given to present collection, 1959, through the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College.
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