Asset ID:
11142
CMS Object ID:
403869
Accession Number:
AN1685.B.205
Title:
Mantle (Powhatan's Mantle)
Object Name:
mantle
Associated person(s) + dates:
Wahunsunacock, Chief (died 1618) (said to have been owned by)
Object dating:
17th century (1601 - 1700)
Associated place(s):
Virginia Colony (place of creation)
Dimensions:
235 cm max. (length) ; 160 cm max. (width)
Materials/ techniques:
deer hide with shell bead decoration and sinew
Responsible department:
Antiquities
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
Key words:
- aboriginal
- accepted
- accessibility
- addition
- adjacent
- american
- angular
- animal
- animals
- appliqu
- arms
- arrangement
- arrow
- ashmolean
- back
- backpacks
- basilica
- bead-work
- beads
- beadwork
- big
- body
- border
- bottom
- bullet
- catalogue
- central
- century
- cervorum
- change
- chief
- chiefdom
- christopher
- circles
- cloak
- cloven
- collection
- colonists
- colony
- comparison
- concentric
- conservation
- consisting
- consuta
- contact
- coris
- counter-clockwise
- cut
- cutibus
- dama
- damage
- dates
- decorated
- decoration
- deer
- design
- dictis
- differences
- different
- digits
- discs
- discs
- display
- distance
- duabus
- ears
- edges
- elaborate
- ends
- english
- evidence
- explanation
- extremities
- fact
- feet
- fig
- figure
- figures
- first
- five-digit
- flat
- founding
- four-legged
- frontal
- full
- gifts
- ground
- habit
- hands
- heavy
- hides
- holes
- hoof
- human
- hung
- illustrations
- indication
- indications
- indicis
- insects
- item
- james
- jamestown
- john
- king
- known
- lambeth
- leadership
- leather
- left
- left-hand
- legs
- length
- likewise
- line
- lion
- long
- loss
- mantle
- marginella
- means
- measures
- modes
- mountain
- nails
- native
- newport
- none
- north
- numerous
- nummis
- object
- odocoileus
- original
- origins
- others
- outline
- outline
- outlines
- outside
- outward
- overall
- oxford
- paired
- pairs
- paramount
- part
- paws
- peoples
- period
- piece
- places
- pohatan
- postcollection
- powerful
- powhatan
- preparatory
- present
- profile
- quadrupeds
- rarities
- reason
- record
- redfield
- regis
- regular
- remarkable
- rent
- rest
- result
- right
- right-hand
- roanoke
- roanoke
- round
- seam
- section
- settlements
- seventeenth
- several
- sex
- shape
- shell
- shells
- shoulders
- side
- sides
- significant
- sinew
- size
- skin
- skins
- slight
- spiral
- spirals
- splendide
- spot-stitching
- square
- standing
- state
- stitches
- systematic
- stwist
- tail
- tails
- taper
- tears
- techniques
- terms
- territory
- text
- theories
- thirty-four
- thread
- thumbs
- time
- toes
- tr
- tradescant
- tribes
- trip
- twentieth
- unspecified
- upper
- upright
- vandalism
- various
- vertical
- vestis
- virginia
- virginiana
- virginiani
- virginianus
- vulgo
- wahunsunacock
- way
- ways
- wear
- white-tailed
- wolf
- yarn
- z-twisted
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