Parka with calf-length straight-cut hem, bird skin with feathers, no hood. Sleeves and hem decorated with geometric patterns and bands of clipped skin, dyed gut, tanned hide (dyed red). Sealskin trimming on cuffs and hem. Collar trimmed with fur (species ?). Very wide, long, roomy cut. Cotton and sinew thread.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Southwest Coast, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Southwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Aleut and Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Fur (hair material) and Skin (collagenous material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Parkas
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
man's clothing
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
122 centimeters and 148 centimeters
Comment:
References: Birket-Smith, Ethno. Studies, Copenhagen, 1941, p. 124; Hatt, Arct. Anth., 1969, p. 49.