Ordinary Safety Pin

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Fish-skin coat
Nivkhi, Siberia, Russia
Skin (salmon), pigment, sinew (reindeer), hair (reindeer)
50 3/4 x 42 1/2 x 2 3/8 in. (129 x 108 x 6 cm)

Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, 1898 (70/83)

From the exhibition:

An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915–1928

Ordinary Safety Pin (ca. 1935)

From the exhibition:

Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935

Photographs from the Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition (1935)
H. C. Raven
Photography

Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History

From the exhibition:

Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935