Pillow cover
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Gwich'in (Kutchin) [Yukon River, Alaska]
- Collector
- Micajah Wallace Pope (M.W. Pope), Non-Indian, 1873-1940
- Previous owner
- Micajah Wallace Pope (M.W. Pope), Non-Indian, 1873-1940
- Seller
- Micajah Wallace Pope (M.W. Pope), Non-Indian, 1873-1940
- Collection History
- Collected between 1907 and 1913 by Micajah W. Pope (1873-1940) during his work with the Alaskan Boundary Survey; purchased by MAI from Micajah Pope in 1928.
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Catalog Number
- 16/1662
- Barcode
- 161662.000
- Object Type
- Furnishings (Home)
- Object Name
- Pillow cover
- Media/Materials
- Deerhide/deerskin, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Sewn, overlay beadwork, fringed
- Dimensions
- 66 x 66 cm
- Place
- Yukon River; Calista Native Corporation, Doyon Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Gwich'in (Kutchin) [Yukon River, Alaska]
- Furnishings (Home)
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_173448
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws601eb85cc-b41d-467b-acbd-956abd5efa7a
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