Dance mittens
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo) [Kinugumiut/Kingegan/Cape Prince of Wales]
- Object Name
- Dance mittens
- Media/Materials
- Sealskin/fur, puffin beak/beaks, wood
- Techniques
- Painted
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- Place
- Cape Prince of Wales; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1938.
- Catalog Number
- 19/8773
- Barcode
- 198773.000
- See related items
- Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo) [Kinugumiut/Kingegan/Cape Prince of Wales]
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
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