Polar bear skin rug

Titles: Polar bear skin rug (Supplied title)

Description: Adult polar bear skin, including head, paws and tail, backed with a heavy brown cloth edged with scalloped black felt. White cloth loops handsewn with black thread along one edge for hanging. Green paint streaks on backing. Purchased in the late 1930s from the U.S. Mercantile Company of Nome, Alaska, by the Ayer family for display in the Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post.

Dates

• 1935 - 1939 (Creation)

Creation

• owned/used by: Ayer, Harry Darius
• owned/used by: Ayer, Jeannette Ora Foster
• used by: Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
• about: U.S. Mercantile Company

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 10000.1256

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, The Harry and Jeannette Ayer Collection.

Notes

• Jeannette O. and Harry D. Ayer Ojibwe Collection.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 268 centimeters length
• 245 centimeters width

Subjects

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