Collar
Cape (clothing)
Object Number: | 37-23-3 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Mohawk Iroquois Penobscot |
Provenience: | United States of America |
Culture Area: | Northeast Culture Area |
Section: | American |
Materials: | Glass Silk |
Length: | 67.9 cm |
Width: | 46 cm |
Credit Line: | Gift of Samuel W. Fernberger, 1937 |
Other Number: | 37-23-4 - Other Number |
Description
Ceremonial cape, elaborately beaded on red silk, bound with blue silk ribbon and lined with blue muslin. Scalloped back and pointed front; edged with inch-wide net of white beads. Design: deer on back, beaver in front below each medallion, four large floral sprays. Colors: dark and pale blue, lavendar, dark and light green, deep and pale yellow, red, pink, black, white and transparent white. Old. See 37-23-4 A-B
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
[Catalogue, Collection] Williams, Lucy F. 2003. Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 90, pl. 109; p. 91, pl. 110 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
[Article] Wardle, Harriet N. 1937. "Chief Gabriel Paul's Treasure". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 7. no. 1. pg. 10-15 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. IV | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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