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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6909, described as Man's parka, "two-skin" cut with sleeves and hood of winter caribou backhide. Hood of "3-piece" construction with white hood-roots. Hood facings of caribou and wolverine. Sleeve-cuffs of caribou. Shoulder fringes of tanned depilated hade; bottom hem strip of the same. Excellent winter parka specimen. Trimmed with smoked moose traded from Athabaskans (fide Elizabeth Goodwin, Al. Eskimo, July 1978).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6911, described as Woman's parka, with a complex check-work pattern with sleeves and hood of ground squirrel skin. Deeply scalloped hem with front and back flaps. Elaborate hood of ground squirrel and white caribou; red thread and clipped caribou decoration. Hem has similar decoration. Cuffs of wolverine. Sinew thread used. Possibly made with mink.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6908, described as Man's parka, "two-skin" cut with sleeves and hood of brown caribou. Gently scalloped hip-length bottom hem. (Rear is 7 cm longer than the front. "Three-piece" hood construction with white hood roots. Elaborate hood facing for wolf, wolverine and caribou. Collar-ties of dyed and braided yarn. Wolverine fringe around the hem and in the center of the back. Made with caribou, wolf, wolverine, sinew thread and wool yarn.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6912, described as Mens, hoodless with thigh-length straight-cut hem, no side-slits. Body and sleeves of domesticated reindeer. Collar of wolfskin with inner lining of wolverine; cuffs and hem trimmed with wolf or possibly dog. No decoration. According to Elizabeth Goodwin (Al. Eskimo, July 1978) this is caribou faun trimmed with wolverine.

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