Reindeer skin tunic; handmade, reindeer skin, woman's summer tunic. Skin, devoid of hair, is dyed a deep sepia. decorated with fur ruffs at hem and sleeves, white hide bands and medallions at edge of hood, around sleeves and at hem. Beadwork medallions and pendants, some with shamanist amulets decorate hood, and tunic body. A bib of decoratively pierced fur and hide attaches to the front of the tunic. The hood and yoke and back of the tunic are partially lined with reindeer hide with the hair intact.
Donor:
Valene Smith McIntyre
Collection place:
Koryak mountains, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia
Verbatim coll. place:
Asia, Russia, Kamchatka Peninsula, Koryak
Culture or time period:
Koryak
Collector:
Valene Smith McIntyre
Collection date:
2005
Materials:
Fur (hair material), Metal (bells, decorative elements ), and Skin (collagenous material) (reindeer)
Taxon:
Abies
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Amulets, Sleeve ruffs, and Tunics
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
December 14, 2005
Context of use:
woman's clothing
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
hood to hem— length 122 centimeters, hem— circumference 282 centimeters, and shoulder/sleeves— width 154 centimeters