Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 21, 1813
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 68
Additional Source Text:
"Made of intestines and very elegantly ornamented."
The donor was "of Chester, Pa."
Notes:
This cloak was offered as Lot 106 in the 13-14 October 1869 sale of "Peale's Museum Relics" owned by Montroville Wilson Dickeson (1810-1882), p. 4.
The cloak pictured here may once have been in the Peale Museum. It is one of the many cultural items that the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University, acquired in 1899 from Moses Kimball's Boston Museum. Kimball and P. T. Barnum jointly purchased many of the Peale collections when they were sold about 1849.
Thomas Robinson (1768-1847) was a merchant sea captain and lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812. He also gave "A Dress Cloak of a Chief of the N. West Coast of America, principally made of Feathers &c. worn in the Winter," among other contributions.
