Object Number | NA5770 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Chilkat (uncertain) | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Hide | Pigment | Quill |
Technique | Painted |
Description | Cape made from fine animal hide with green, black, and red painted formline designs. Slit cut for head. Garment has rounded bottom edges and two tiers of dyed porcupine quill wrapped fringe around the entire garment. The front depicts a painted wolf's head with front paws. Back side of cape depicts a bird (Eagle?) with wings and head. The area around the neckline shows traces of red pigment. Wrapped fringe alternates areas of white undyed quillwork with areas of dyed quill wrapped fringe in patterned sequences of blue-red-blue and blue-yellow-blue. |
Length | 66 cm |
Width | 71 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917 |
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