Object type: ethnography / Culture or time period: Kodiak Eskimo / Function: 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5811, described as Leather, with embroidery of red skin and thread. U - shaped flat pouch of bleached deerskin trimmed with sealskin, red dyed applique strips, plaited sinew carrying cord.

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.

Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5805, described as Scraped stomach or intestines, tanned white. Made in 7 horizontal panels, largest one folded over for a seamless bottom. No decoration in side seams. Main decoration is horizontal fringing of seal hair, red yarn, white reindeer hair embroidery and red-painted depilated hide or gut, about 5 cm from bottom. Next, a wide black graphite-painted horizontal panel with white reindeer hair embroidery and loop-fringing, red and gray yarns and threads, and red-painted gut strips. White windpipe skin inset with black & red dyed gutskin and seal fur; trimmed with white quill and red wool yarn. Bag string: braided white cotton yarn into which pink, black tufts of cotton have been mixed, at end a white glass bead.