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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.
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 2-6695, 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 model, accession number 2-7211, described as Model of fur parka. Red tufts inset along borders. Made of marmot fur.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka model, accession number 2-7214, described as Model of fur parka for women with red tufts inset along borders. Made with caribou skin. Includes parka hood. For a doll.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka model, accession number 2-7210, described as Fur, with red tufts inset along borders. Poor condition.
Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-5813, described as 3 piece pattern, white gut. Most decoration damaged or missing. Horizontal decorative bands of sealskin, gut, leather and coating of specular hematite (molybdenite according to Jessica Towns). Long undecorated hanging loop of braided sealskin. Made with graphite-blackened gut; red/white gut; hairless sealskin; Stomach membrane, sinew, gut, seal fur, leather (sp.?), red, purple & black thread, hematite (molybdenite according to Jessica Towns). Running stitch used throughout.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-4529, described as Fishskin pouch, short vertical sides with varying rectangular design, trimmed with bleached skin and red felt, brown threaded deerskin strap at one end with attached babiche lace. Made of salmonskin, leather, babiche, sinew, felt, and cotton thread.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Sole creaser, accession number 2-4195, described as Boot sole creaser. Made of animal bone. Not knot slipper.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled String instrument, accession number 2-57692, described as Banjo-like single string musical instrument with soundbox. Single gut string. Carved conifer with finely pegged construction.

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