Decorative Pillow Cover Made with Bird Skins and Trimmed with Fur
Iñupiaq or Yup'ik
Western Arctic
Arctic
early 20th century
Bird skin, duck feathers, mammal skin, wolverine fur
Overall: 22 1/16 × 20 7/8 in. (56 × 53 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. James Foster Scott, in memory of her late husband, Victor J. Evans
157.9.13872
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Textile
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Victor Justice Evans (1865-1931), Washington, D.C, date unknown; to his widow, (Mabel) Karen Gram Schaefer Evans Scott Allen (1891-1974), Meriden, New Hampshire, 1931; given to present collection, 1957.
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