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CD2010-0501
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Artifact NumberIII-B-632
Current Cultural AffiliationsInnu
All AffiliationsNaskapi (culture)
Innu (culture)
Eastern Subarctic
Category03: personal artifacts
Sub-categoryC100: clothing, outerwear
MeasurementsLength 100.3 cm, Width 47.5 cm
Earliest Possible Date1765/01/01
Latest Possible Date1775/12/31
CaptionPainted caribou-skin coat, Naskapi, collected ca. 1813-1816
Additional InformationThe Naskapi of northeastern Quebec and Labrador were semi-nomadic hunters, dependent particularly on caribou for food and for the raw materials needed to make clothing, tools and weapons. This summer coat is an unusually fine example of the Naskapi decorative tradition. Its elaborate designs were probably painted with imported pigments of vermilion and washing blue and with fish roe, which yellows with age. Before the arrival of Europeans, paints were made from plants and from natural deposits of red and yellow ochre. Such coats became popular trade items. This one was collected in the early nineteenth century by Sir Gordon Drummond, a British officer and administrator of Upper and Lower Canada for a few years after the War of 1812.
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