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Description

A pair of woman’s dance mittens. The mitts have no separate thumbs. Tassels made of fur strips that are coloured red on one side are sewn to the back of the hand and at the tops of the fingers. The cuffs are decorated with shorn white and dark bands of skin, and with a red coloured wolverine fur trim.

Information from the Smithsonian

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1976."

  • Collection: Macfarlane Collection
  • Catalogue Number: E5135-0
  • Object Type: dance mitts
  • Materials: sinew, ochre, wolverine fur, caribou hide
  • Manufacturing Techniques: cutting, sewing, scraping
  • Tags: clothing, dancing

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