The Holmberg Collection of Skin Clothing from Kodiak Island at the National Museum of Denmark

• Published in: Études/Inuit/Studies
• Main Author: Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) 2018
• Subjects: Rare skin clothing; documentation; Skin Clothing Online; Kodiak Island; Henrik Johan Holmberg; Vêtements de peau rares; île de Kodiak; Pacific; Thomsen; Études/Inuit/Studies; inuit; Kodiak; tlingit; Alaska
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1064498ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1064498ar

In 1851, during his stay in what was then Russian America, Finnish scientist Henrik Johan Holmberg (1818–1864) collected a unique assortment of some four hundred objects primarily from the Indigenous people of southern Alaska and the Northwest Coast. The collection included skin clothing, dress orna...