Gauntlets
- Museum number:
- 2-6483a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21026483a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- x-2676 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Object count:
- 2
- Description:
- Dancing gauntlets set with puffin bills and quills.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Materials:
- Feather (material) and Quill (spine material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Musical instruments
- Function:
- 5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Shaken in time to the music." According to Elizabeth Goodwin, these were used in the Wolf Dance.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- height 3 centimeters, length 46 centimeters, and width 22 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-