Small Red and White Tubular Beads
Upper Tanana
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
after 1870
Beads and skin string
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925
30.2.24750
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Adornment
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Professor Robert Addison McKennan [Dartmouth Class of 1925, 1903-1982) [during his field research studying the Tanana and Chandalar people of the Upper Tanana River, Alaska], 1929-1930; given to present collection, 1930.
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