Dance Glove

NA1551B

From: Alaska | Kuskokwim River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA1551B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Eskimo
Provenience Alaska | Kuskokwim River
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Skin | Animal Fiber | Beak | Quill | Sealskin | Puffin Beaks
Description

One of a pair of ceremonial gloves made from seal skin and decorated with puffin beaks and feathers.

Height 45 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1907

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