Dancing Skirt, Trimmed With Puffin Beaks Item Number: E88731-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
Both Swan's original tag with the artifact and the Anthropology catalogue ledger book identify this artifact as a "dancing skirt." This was mistranscribed on the catalogue card as a "dancing shirt." - F. Pickering 9-27-2006
Item History
- Made in British Columbia, Canada
- Collected by James G. Swan in British Columbia, Canada
- Received on December 21, 1883
What
- Name
- Dancing Skirt, Trimmed With Puffin Beaks
- Identification Number
- E88731-0
- Type of Item
- apron
Who
- Culture
- Haida
- Field Collector
- James G. Swan
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Collected in
- British Columbia, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- on December 21, 1883
Other
- Accession Number
- 013804