Model, costume / figure

Description

Model figure of a Dena'ina man, made of carton-pierre, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire for the Paris Exhibition, 1867: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867

Museum reference

A.1867.50.36

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Model, costume / figure

Production information

Heiser, I.M., 1867 (fl.)
St Petersburg, Russia, Eastern Europe

Date

c. 1867

Materials

Carton-pierre

Physical description

Model figure of a Kenait man, made of carton-pierre, wearing a skin tunic with a pointed lower edge at the front and back, moccasins joined to the leg covering, and a hood falling over the shoulders, all decorated with quillwork, fur edging and fringing. The figure holds a double-bladed wooden paddle, and a duck, and has a circular labret of limestone and blue glass of Eskimo type at each side of the mouth.

Associations

Paris Exhibition 1867
Alaska, USA, North America

References

Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979