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Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-4767, described as Parka or man. "Two-skin" cut with body, hood and sleeves of ground squirrel skin. Waist length straight-cut hem decorated with four bands of trimmed white caribou. Band and fringes of wolfskin around shoulder seams. Wolverine and marten (?) around cuffs. Hem fringe of flesh-out wolfskin. Made with sinew thread, red (cotton ?) thread. Running stitch used.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6731, described as Skin coat
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6690, described as Parka with calf-length straight-cut hem, bird skin with feathers, no hood. Sleeves and hem decorated with geometric patterns and bands of clipped skin, dyed gut, tanned hide (dyed red). Sealskin trimming on cuffs and hem. Collar trimmed with fur (species ?). Very wide, long, roomy cut. Cotton and sinew thread.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6736, described as Woman's fish skin parka, hooded, gored in elaborate pattern with yoke over shoulders and triangular gussets inset from rounded bottom edge; back longer than front.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6693, described as Man's parka "two-skin" cut with sleeves and hood. Straight-cut hip-length hem. Body, hood and sleeves of brown caribou. Modified "three piece" hood without hood-roots, fringed with wolfskin and (cotton ?) thread. Not commercially tanned (fide Ronald W. Senungetuk, July 1987).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6687, described as Woman's parka, complex pattern with sleeves and hood of belly and flank caribou skin. Hem deeply scalloped with front and back flaps of equal length (Knee-length). Modified "three-piece" hood with white hood-roots, wolf and wolverine trim. Body with decorative trim of clipped caribou and red thread. No cuffs or cuff trim.
Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6384, described as Mans, "two-skin" cut with sleeves and body of domestic reindeer (mottled brown and white). No hood. Collar of wolf with inner wolverine neckband. Sleeves wide at shoulder, taper to narrow wolverine cuffs. Hip-length straight-cut hem decorated with caribou and wolverine. Some tanned skins not commercially tanned, fide Ronald W. Senungetuk, July 1987). Made with domesticated reindeer, wolf, wolverine, and sinew thread.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka model, accession number 2-7213, described as Fur.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka model, accession number 2-7220, described as Fur.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka model, accession number 2-7211, described as Model of fur parka. Red tufts inset along borders. Made of marmot fur.

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