Object Number | 2003-43-6 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Nivkh | Ulchi |
Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
Culture Area | Siberia |
Section | American |
Materials | Fishskin | Hide | Cotton | Silk | Metal |
Technique | Woven | Appliqued | Painted | Tooled | Sewn |
Description | Woman's coat of undyed cottton. Chinese style buttoning down right hand side. Spherical metal buttons. Cut hide loops. Collar, shoulders, cuffs, placket and hem decorated with strips of dark blue, red, orange, yellow, tan, light blue, and undyed cotton strips. A series of metal discs attached with hide loops decorate the center of the hem. Back of the coat is decorated with scroll designs of silk wrapped around cut gut and apppliqued to hide (?) which in turns is appliqued to the cotton material. Sides are decorated with painted skin, appliqued (red, black, orange). |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
Other Number | 1899.1.6 - Other Number | 387/26 - Other Number | 74-1-115 - Other Number |
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