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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-49, described as Man's parka, for summer. Without hood. Straight-cut, waist length. Body and sleeved of ground squirrel, sewn in rectangle and triangular pieces. No cuff trim; collar trim of baby seal, hem trim of rabbit (?) and faced inside with grown squirrel. Decorative effect from contrasting ground squirrel skin. Made with sinew, cotton thread, and textile ribbon.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-68404, described as Parka, woman's; tanned reindeer fur; large hood; base has two u-shaped flaps, the back flap much larger than the front one; both are trimmed with leather; length 202 cm including fringe.
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.
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-2984, described as Parka with hood, walrus gut; hood has cotton draw-sting; round flaring towards bottom; sealskin strip at hem. Cost Capt. Cushing $7.00.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6908, described as Man's parka, "two-skin" cut with sleeves and hood of brown caribou. Gently scalloped hip-length bottom hem. (Rear is 7 cm longer than the front. "Three-piece" hood construction with white hood roots. Elaborate hood facing for wolf, wolverine and caribou. Collar-ties of dyed and braided yarn. Wolverine fringe around the hem and in the center of the back. Made with caribou, wolf, wolverine, sinew thread and wool yarn.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6912, described as Mens, hoodless with thigh-length straight-cut hem, no side-slits. Body and sleeves of domesticated reindeer. Collar of wolfskin with inner lining of wolverine; cuffs and hem trimmed with wolf or possibly dog. No decoration. According to Elizabeth Goodwin (Al. Eskimo, July 1978) this is caribou faun trimmed with wolverine.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka and cover, accession number 2-71396a,b, described as Womans fur parka stitched onto black cotton cloth, long haired ruff around face; cotton floral print cover trimmed with blue bias tape and ric-rac. Made with ground squirrel, wolf and caribou fur, cotton cloth, cotton thread, hand and machine sewn.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka and cover, accession number 2-71397a,b, described as Woman's fur parka stitched onto grey cotton flannel cloth, full length zipper in front, cover of white cotton twill, full length zipper in front, trimmed with multi-colored cotton bias tape. Machine sewn.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Parka cover, accession number 2-71398, described as Parka cover, white cotton trimmed with blue cotton bias tape sewn in geometric design, braided lavender wool yarn around hood, metal snap fasteners at top and base of hood. Machine stitched.

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