Parka

Museum number:

2-72497

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.4548

Description:

gut rain parka (winter) with hood. seams to inside. decorated with: bird skin with feathers at shoulders and back of hood; red dyed gut at shoulders, cuffs, hood opening, hem in narrow bands down front and back; fur tassels ending with red fabric at shoulders, at midriff at mid-skirt both back and front.

Donor:

Valene Smith McIntyre

Collection place:

Alaska

Culture or time period:

Eskimo

Collector:

Valene Smith McIntyre

Materials:

Fur (hair material), Gut (animal material), and Skin (collagenous material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Parkas

Accession date:

May 19, 2005

Context of use:

clothing

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

length 123 centimeters and width 133 centimeters