coat

coat

coat

top image
Images
Introduction

Coat of smoked deerskin cut with an attached shoulder cape cut in a tailored early Victorian style with punched designs on the bottom edge and cape. Lapels and cuffs of dark brown velvet embroidered in red, yellow and white porcupine quills in motifs of serpents and castellated and zig zag lines and with eagles under the lapels

Nation of Maker: Anishinaabe
Date Made or Date Range: 1830s to 1845
Materials

smoked deerskin, dark brown velvet, porcupine quills in red, turquoise, yellow, white, white glass beads

Techniques or Format

man's coat cut in tailored style with two gores in back that create a narrow waisted style. Brown velvet sewn on to lapels and cuffs, think fringing extends on the outside at all seams

Motifs and Patterns

serpents, eagles or thunderbirds, castellated lines, wavy lines on lapels, back collar and under lapels

Original and Subsequent Uses

Jones wore this coat when giving public lectures to raise money for Methodist missionary activities and also to visit Queen Victoria and important officials

Other Notes
Dimensions: 0 × 0 × 0 mm
Condition: very good
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Jones wore this coat in a photo taken by Edinburgh photographers Hill and Adamson in 1845

Current Location: National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E178398
Collection at Current Location: Peter Jones Collection
GKS Reference Number: 24811
Record Creation Context

Record created during GRASAC visit to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History from Dec 3-7, 2012. The visit was funded by the Smithsonian's Recovering Voices project in order to work with GRASAC to develop a methodology for incorporating indigenous language research with material culture research

Record Creation Notes/Observations

Participants (during the week): Alan Corbiere, Lisa Truong, Crystal Migwans, Ruth Phillips, Mary Ann Corbiere, Rand Valentine, Myna Toulouse and Theodore Toulouse

Approximate Place of Origin

43.3, -78.1

Do You Have Knowledge to Contribute? Share with Us.