Parka

Museum number:
2-6909
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
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).
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Alces alces, Gulo gulo, and Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Parkas
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— width 193 centimeters, measurements for storage— height 16 centimeters, measurements for storage— length 107 centimeters, 84 centimeters, and 174 centimeters
Comment:
References: Similar to Nelson, Bureau Am. Ethn. Ann. Rpt., 1892, pp. 114-115, fig. 56.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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).Documentation associated with 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).Documentation associated with 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).

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