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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-13831, described as Man's parka, "two-piece" cut; body sleeves and hood of domesticated reindeer. Straight cut hip-length hem without side-slits. Hood of "three-piece" construction with center panel of reindeer head skin, short hood-roots. Hood facing of wolf skin and caribou. Wolverine tassels on hood-point. Checked caribou hem decorations. Wolverine cuffs. Part of outfit that includes 2-13832 through 2-13834.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-3039, described as Hood-less parka. Made of gut, high collar, horizontal strips of gut decorated with tufts of stiff white hair (caribou?) sewn into seams. Hem, collar and sleeves trimmed with reddish brown-dyed material, front of both arms has remnants of green silk (?) thread on one seam. 2-ply sinew cordage with single black tubular glass (?) bead attached to loop at base of each sleeve. Remnant of red material on cordage. Sealskin tab top center of collar decorated with 2 tubular black glass (?) beads on plaited sinew cordage.
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 2-28558, described as Woman's parka. Body, sleeves, and hood of caribou. Straight hem, waist-length. Unusual hood; modified "three-piece" construction with narrow side-pieces and no hood roots. Central panel has two fabricated "ears". Trimmed with mink and decorated with caribou. Body and sleeved decorated with white caribou and hairless caribou fringes.
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 Parka, accession number 2-6687, described as Woman's parka, complex pattern with sleeves and hood of belly and flank caribou skin. Hem deeply scalloped with front and back flaps of equal length (Knee-length). Modified "three-piece" hood with white hood-roots, wolf and wolverine trim. Body with decorative trim of clipped caribou and red thread. No cuffs or cuff trim.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-28557, described as Parka made of coney or caribou, with calfskin trim. Fide Elizabeth Goodwin.

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