Robe
- Date created
- circa 1860
- Culture/People
- Coast Salish
- Collector
- Joseph W. Mackay (Joseph William McKay/Joe Mackay), Non-Indian, 1829-1900
- Previous owner
- Joseph W. Mackay (Joseph William McKay/Joe Mackay), Non-Indian, 1829-1900
- George Thornton Emmons (George T. Emmons/G.T. Emmons), Non-Indian, 1852-1945
- Seller
- George Thornton Emmons (George T. Emmons/G.T. Emmons), Non-Indian, 1852-1945
- Presenter/funding source
- Harmon W. Hendricks (Harmon Washington Hendricks), Non-Indian, 1846-1928
- Collection History
- Formerly owned by the chief of the Tsakum band of Cowichan Salish at Yale, British Columbia; collected from him about 1860 by Joseph W. MacKay (1829-1900, a fur trader, Hudson Bay Company representative, businessman, and politician in British Columbia); acquired by Lieutenant George T. Emmons (1852-1945, US Navy 1881-1899) from an unknown source in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1925; purchased by MAI from George T. Emmons in 1925 using funds donated by MAI trustee Harmon W. Hendricks (1846-1928).
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- Place
- Fraser River; Yale; Fraser Valley Regional District; British Columbia; Canada
- See related items
- Coast Salish
- Clothing/Garments: Outerwear (flat)
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Northwest Coast
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 14/4864
- Barcode
- 144864.000
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Outerwear (flat)
- Object Name
- Robe
- Media/Materials
- Mountain goat wool yarn, wool yarn, vegetal fiber, dye/dyes, ribbon
- Techniques
- Dyed, twined
- Dimensions
- 118 x 107 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_155564