Water Mits

NA263.4

From: Alaska | Nunivak Island

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA263.4
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Eskimo
Provenience Alaska | Nunivak Island
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Salmon Skin
Description

One of a pair of dark colored fish skin mittens. Oval shaped piece applied to the top with faded blue stitching and short skin fringe at one end. Mittens have a basketry core with fish skin applied over top.

Length 30 cm
Width 14 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

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