Baby belt/sling

Culture/People
Dene (Northern Athabascan)
Previous owner
Chichester Museum
Previous Seller
Alfred Walter Francis Fuller (A.W. Fuller/A.W.F. Fuller), Non-Indian, 1882-1961
Previous owner
William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
Seller
William Ockleford Oldman (W.O. Oldman/William Ockelford Oldman), Non-Indian, 1879-1949
Collection History
Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Chichester Museum (Chichester, West Sussex, England) and said to have been acquired by the museum about 1845; acquired by William Ockleford Oldman (1879-1949, who did business as "W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London") in 1912 from British anthropologist and collector Alfred Walter Francis Fuller (1882-1961); purchased by George Heye from W.O. Oldman in 1913.
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Place
Western Subarctic; Alaska; Canada, USA (inferred)
See related items
Dene (Northern Athabascan)
Transportation Items: Baby carriers
Data Source
National Museum of the American Indian
Catalog Number
3/2897
Barcode
032897.000
Object Type
Transportation Items: Baby carriers
Object Name
Baby belt/sling
Media/Materials
Wool cloth, glass bead/beads, hide thong/babiche, thread
Techniques
Sewn, overlay beadwork, tied
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6765796ec-f05e-4b88-b6a4-aff5c70fbf61
Record ID
NMAI_34760