Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected or purchased from local residents by George Heye in 1922 using funds donated by MAI trustee Harmon W. Hendricks (1846-1928).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
- Collector
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Presenter/funding source
- Harmon W. Hendricks (Harmon Washington Hendricks), Non-Indian, 1846-1928
- Date created
- circa 1890
- Object Name
- Man's dance apron
- Media/Materials
- Wool cloth, cotton cloth, silk ribbon, puffin beak/beaks
- Techniques
- Sewn, appliquéd
- Dimensions
- 72.2 x 78.2 cm
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments
- Indigenous Term
- tsep
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