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Hearst Museum object titled Coat, accession number 2-6737, described as Seal gut parka ornamented with feathers and worsted. Imitation ribbonwork in dyed gut on yoke, sleeves and hem. Acc. to Eskimo consultant R.W. Senungetuk: "Imitation ribbonwork in dyed gut on yoke" is a misrepresentational statement on the bonafide Koniaq type that can be associated easily with Russian capes, etc. but it may be indigenous.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Coat, accession number 2-6733, described as Seal gut coat edged with fur.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Coat, accession number 2-6677, described as Seal gut ornamented with feathers and worsted. Each horizontal gore ornamented with feathers and wool worsted fabric; border of neck, sleeves and bottom elaborated with braid on fabric, and fur fringe.
Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-72490, described as Bird skin (auk) parka with hood. trimmed with white fur at cuffs and hem; brown fur around hood. parka made up of whole skins with feathers interspersed with tufted feathers in perpendicular bands.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-72491, described as gut parka (summer); hand sewn gut rain parka with hood. red ribbon trim around hood opening; fur trim around cuffs and hem.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-72497, described as gut rain parka (winter) with hood. seams to inside. decorated with: bird skin with feathers at shoulders and back of hood; red dyed gut at shoulders, cuffs, hood opening, hem in narrow bands down front and back; fur tassels ending with red fabric at shoulders, at midriff at mid-skirt both back and front.
Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-108, described as Gut parka for doll, red-dyed vertical stripe in front, red-dyed shoulders and cuffs, fur trimmed hood, cuffs and hem, inserts of green, blue and red wool yarn tufts overall.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6690, described as Parka with calf-length straight-cut hem, bird skin with feathers, no hood. Sleeves and hem decorated with geometric patterns and bands of clipped skin, dyed gut, tanned hide (dyed red). Sealskin trimming on cuffs and hem. Collar trimmed with fur (species ?). Very wide, long, roomy cut. Cotton and sinew thread.
Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 9-21453, described as Festival Parka, w/ hood and flap. Reindeer skin w/ fur inside. Skin dyed w/alder bark solution; urine mordant. Decorated with bead medallions and rosettes, tassels of seal fur died with alder, suede fringes; hemmed with sable. Length across shoulders and sleeves = 164.0cm; Length neck to hem = 58.0cm; Circumferance of hem = 274.0cm.

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