Gauntlet-type Gloves Beaded with a Floral Motif

Koyukon
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic

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collected 1929-1930

Skin, sinew, thread, and glass beads

Overall: 14 3/16 × 7 5/16 in. (36 × 18.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Professor Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925

39.39.7650

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Accessory

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Subarctic

Not on view

Course History

ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015

Publication History

Robert A. McKennan, The Upper Tanana Indians, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Number 55, New Haven: Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1959, p. 59, fig. 7A.

Provenance

Collected by Professor Robert Addison McKennan [Dartmouth Class of 1925 (1903-1982), in the Tanana Valley, 1929-1930; given to present collection, 1939.

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