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Start Over Collector Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds Taxon Rangifer tarandus caribou
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-6896a,b, described as Ankle-height boots, depilated sealskin soles, brown dyed intervening strip, fur-out caribou uppers. No decoration except fur trim around boot-tops. Leather hanging strap and ankle ties. Sewn with sinew and cotton thread.
Hearst Museum object titled Mask, accession number 2-6476, described as Wood; central anthropomorphic face with additional superimposed face; red, black and white pigment; hoop bound with spruce root is piereced with 2 feathers; caribou hair inserted in edge of central section; 2 inset legs, 1 inset arm (found 1972); other inset arm found 1974.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Mittens, accession number 2-6952a,b, described as Fur.
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 Slippers, accession number 2-6900a,b, described as Indoor slippers made of caribou skin, fur in. Approximately ankle-height. Decorated with red paint around sole seam and down middle of instep. Leather ankle-strap. Fastened throught pierce loops.
Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-6934, described as Trousers made of brown caribou skin, hair out. Triangular crotch gusset from front to back, otherwise made according to basic "legging pants" pattern (Hatt 1914). No decoration of any sort. Several holes in legs very neatly mended. Made with rawhide and sinew thread.

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