Coat

Coat made from animal hide with decorative beadwork and quillwork. The cuffs, shoulders, and lower hem are made of red cloth with sinuous, floral beadwork in white, blue, yellow, black, and pink beads. A bib or yoke below the collar has floral decoration made with dyed porcupine quills on a hide background. The shoulder panel and the area where the sleeves are attached to the body of the coat are lined with hide fringe. The cuffs and lower hem panel are framed with a thin, white band and trimmed with blue cloth. Although this caribou hide jacket was collected among the Tlingit, the fringing along the shoulders and the quilled decoration on the yoke are distinctly Athapaskan (Kaplan and Barsness, 1986 p. 168).