Skirt

Object/Artifact

St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Skirt

Entry/Object ID

143/3460

Description

Woven. Beads, grass, leather. Rawhide strips covered in woven material.

Collection

NATIVE AMERICAN

Made/Created

Place

Continent

North America

Ethnography

Cultural Region

State/Province

California

Culture/Tribe

Needs to be Identified, Yurok

Native American

Notes

California was marked on Catalogit, but Index does not indicate any specific location/tribe. A visually similar skirt is attributed to the Yurok Tribe of N. California by the Peabody Museum, another by the Hearst Museum, another by the Museum of International Folk Art (which also puts forth Hupa as a possibility), the Art Institute of Chicago (also puts Hupa forth).

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Girdle

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Garment, Foundation

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Underwear

Nomenclature Class

Clothing

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects

Parts

Count

Material

PLANT, RAWHIDE

Condition

Overall Condition

Good