Coat
NA8472
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain) | Klukwan (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA8472 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka (uncertain) | Klukwan (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Locus | Klukwan Gaanax.teidi Clan | Raven or Whale House |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Skin | Quill | Pigment |
| Iconography | Raven Crest |
| Description | Coat with painted figures on the front. The design represents a bear holding a copper shield or "tina" in its mouth. The image represented on the upper portion of the copper shield also represents a bear (Maurer, 1977 p. 317). At the bottom, two small, skeletonized, figures in profile represent the spirit of the raven, a crest object of the clan. Designs are painted in black, red, and green. The reverse is undecorated save for a small panel of dyed porcupine quills in white, red, and yellow. The decorative panel has hide fringe wrapped with red and white quills. The sides and shoulders of the coat are fringed. |
| Length | 104 cm |
| Width | 87.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
| Other Number | CT-4 - Other Number |
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