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Coat
| Object Number: | 2003-43-9 |
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Nivkhi |
| Provenience: | Siberia Amur River |
| Culture Area: | Siberia |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Fishskin Leather Metal |
| Technique: | Appliqued Tanned Sewn Painted |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number: | 1899.1.9 - Other Number 74-1-110 - Other Number 388/27 - Other Number |
Description
Woman's coat in Chinese style; fastened along right hand side; consisting of strips of fishskin sewn together; collar, placket, and hem decorated with red and black painted strips; tooled brass discs attached with colored fishskin strips along upper hem; three metal spherical buttons with fishskin loops; backside of coat decorated with appliqued fishskin cut in a scrolled design; similar applique work on shoulders and upper sleeve.
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