On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Summer costume
Unrecorded Gwich’in artist First Nations or Native American
Not on view
This costume may be a commissioned work based on an earlier style of Gwich’in dress; by the time a British army officer collected the ensemble in the 1880s, European-style clothing predominated in Gwich’in territory. The discrete ornamentation is made in the old style with folded porcupine quills, which are remarkably well preserved.