Woman's white ermine tippet and muff set

Titles: Woman's white ermine tippet and muff set (Supplied title)

Description: Ermine shoulder tippet with long lappets lined in quilted pink silk. Crocheted button closure at neck. Decorate silk cords at the neck end in braided and fringed tassels. Matching barrel-shaped ermine muff with pink silk lining. Made from ermine pelts collected by Indian traders for the American Fur Company. Agent Henry Sibley sent them to his sister, Sarah Alexandrine. She had this ensemble created by an unknown furrier for an 1840 visit to Washington D. C. with her father, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, Solomon Sibley.

Dates

• Approximately 1840 - Approximately 1849 (Creation)

Creation

• owned/used by: Sibley, Miss Sarah Alexandrine
• received by: Sibley, Miss Sarah Alexandrine
• given by: Sibley, Henry Hastings

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 2513.A,B

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 21 inch length (2513.A, tippet from neckline to end of lappets including ermine tail fringe)
• 37 inch width (2513.A, across the bottom of the tippet before the lappets)
• 10 inch length (2513.B, muff)
• 13 inch width (2513.B, muff)
• 4 1/2 inch depth (2513.B, muff)

Subjects

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