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View full screenDress, of tanned smoked caribou skin, with slit neck and shirt-type collar tying with thongs, and rectangular cape hanging from shoulders across back, decorated with thongs wrapped with red and white porcupine quills, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, 1860
A.558.39
Unknown
Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
c. 1860
Tłı̨chǫ
Athapaskan
Caribou skin, Thong, Porcupine quill, Thong
Women's summer dress of tanned smoked caribou skin with slit neck and shirt-type collar tying with thongs. Set-in sleeves gathered into cuffs. Lower edge fringed. Rectangular cape hangs from shoulders across back, decorated with thongs wrapped with red and white porcupine quills. Thong fringes at the armhole and sleeve seams, sewn with sinew.
Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
Hudson's Bay Company
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The Athabaskans: Strangers of the North. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1974. Exhibition catalogue from 'An international travelling exhibition from the collection of the National Museum of Man, Canada, and the Royal Scottish Museum'. cat no. 172
Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979
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