Trousers

Museum number:
2-6688a
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Women's trousers/boots, caribou or deerskin, fur out. Legs pieced together with white and brown fur panels. Attached boots with white depilated creased sealskin soles. No drawstring, drawstring tube or loops.brown and white caribou fur, cut in decorative gores and stitched; soles of crimped bearded seal skin.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Point Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Point Barrow
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Trousers
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-6688a, described as Women's trousers/boots, caribou or deerskin, fur out. Legs pieced together with white and brown fur panels. Attached boots with white depilated creased sealskin soles. No drawstring, drawstring tube or loops.brown and white caribou fur, cut in decorative gores and stitched; soles of crimped bearded seal skin.

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