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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 9-6447, described as Yellow fur parkha; Khaki; collar of wool, decorated with small animal tails; 3 feet 7.25 inches long.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-103, described as Fur parkay (parka).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6693, described as Man's parka "two-skin" cut with sleeves and hood. Straight-cut hip-length hem. Body, hood and sleeves of brown caribou. Modified "three piece" hood without hood-roots, fringed with wolfskin and (cotton ?) thread. Not commercially tanned (fide Ronald W. Senungetuk, July 1987).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-19143, described as Made of gut.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-104, described as Fish skin parka.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-101, described as Fur parka. "Marmot with dog fur ruff" added in pencil.
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.
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.

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