Object class: Outerwear / Collection place: The Americas / Collector: unknown - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Blanket, accession number 2-48459, described as Serape-bed blanket. Red ground with multicolor diamonds composed of rectangular terraced designs. Purple bands at long ends, triangles at side borders. 2 loom widths sewn together. Tapestry woven analine dyed 4-ply Germantown wool yarn weft. Cotton warp.

Hearst Museum object titled Cape, accession number 2-4757, described as Hide, painted with crest design.

Hearst Museum object titled Cape, accession number 2-19030, described as Small cedar bark cape, conical. Twined weave. Worn in rainy weather.

Hearst Museum object titled Chilkat blanket, accession number 2-10771, described as Black, blue and yellow pattern, heavily fringed.

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.

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.

Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6695, described as Bird skin (cormorant ?) parka, feathers out. No hood, straight calf-length hem. Decoration of red cloth and rabbit skin (?) tassels. Depilated, red skin band around hips with gut strips; reindeer and marten (?) on cuffs. Made with Cormorant skin (?), reindeer, marten (?), tanned hide, gut, rabbit skin, woven cloth, cotton thread, sinew thread (?). According to Eskimo consultant Ronald W. Senungetuk, July 1987: "Trim is made of caribou or reindeer, sea otter, ochre dyed bird skin and leather, decorated with red wool fabric, rabbit skin tassels and red band embellished with gut strips sewn above the bottom edge; reindeer hide and marten fur on cuffs. caribou or reindeer skin band turned inside out with seal''s throat skin overlay and danglers made of unborn or newly born fawn skin. Styling is Kodiak which may have been during or after Russian regime but it may be totally traditional." References: Birket-Smith, Ethno. Studies, Copenhagen, 1941, p.124; Hatt, Arct. Anth., 1969, p. 49.