Donor: Valene Smith McIntyre / Culture or time period: Siberian cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Hat, accession number 9-22471, described as Reindeer skin hat (hood?) with white fur ruff and brown fur lining. Top of hood decorated with 3 bands (12.5 cm) and medallions (1.2 cm) of seed beads of red/green/white joined at the base by a horizontal band of red and white beads. Four loops of red/white/green beads decorate the crown, each ending in a pendant of beads with fur tufts. Two hide ties allow closure under the chin.

Hearst Museum object titled Tunic, accession number 9-22470, described as Reindeer skin tunic; handmade, reindeer skin, woman's summer tunic. Skin, devoid of hair, is dyed a deep sepia. decorated with fur ruffs at hem and sleeves, white hide bands and medallions at edge of hood, around sleeves and at hem. Beadwork medallions and pendants, some with shamanist amulets decorate hood, and tunic body. A bib of decoratively pierced fur and hide attaches to the front of the tunic. The hood and yoke and back of the tunic are partially lined with reindeer hide with the hair intact.