Daa dugu k'oodas (Ermine-skin shirt)
Dateca. 1885
Maker
Tlingit, Chilkoot
Object number85.359
Provenance{Possibly Chilkoot Jack (Tlingit chief, said to have guided the first white man to the Yukon), 1899}; Harriet Smith Pullen (1860-1947), Skagway, Alaska; by descent to her granddaughter, Mary Pullen Kopanski (1906-1979), Seattle, Washington, 1947-1973; sold via [Greenfield Galleries, Seattle, Washington, July 2, 1973, session no. 3, lot no. 847 (as Ceremonial Shirt - Ermine skins & beautiful beadwork on red Hudson Bay flannel. Belonged to a Tlingit Indian Chief)]; purchased at auction by John H. Hauberg, Seattle, Washington, 1973-1985; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1985
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Box of Daylight: Northwest Coast Indian Art, Sept. 15, 1983 - Jan. 8, 1984.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Northwest Coast Indian Art: Selections from the Hauberg Collection, Aug. 22, 1985 - Mar. 16, 1986.Published ReferencesCrickshank, Julie, Their Own Yukon, Whitehorse, YT: Yukon Indian Cultural Educational Society, 1973, p. 23
Holm, Bill, Box of Daylight: Northwest Coast Indian Art, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, University of Washington Press, 1983, no. 97, p. 64, illus.
The Spirit Within: Northwest Coast Native Art from the John H. Hauberg Collection, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1995, p. 68
Phillips Brackbill, Eleanor. A Storied Woman: Harriet Smith Pullen and the Klondike Gold Rush. Pacific Northwest Quarterly Volume 106, no. 2 (Spring 2015): p. 64, reproducedCredit LineGift of John H. Hauberg
Dimensions42 x 45 in. (106.68 x 114.3 cm)
MediumErmine skin, moosehide fringe, wool cloth, glass beads, metal, cotton cloth, and hooks
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