Parka

Museum number:
2-6736
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020006736
Alternate number:
x-2929 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Woman's fish skin parka, hooded, gored in elaborate pattern with yoke over shoulders and triangular gussets inset from rounded bottom edge; back longer than front.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Parkas
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 123 centimeters and width 122 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6736, described as Woman's fish skin parka, hooded, gored in elaborate pattern with yoke over shoulders and triangular gussets inset from rounded bottom edge; back longer than front.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6736, described as Woman's fish skin parka, hooded, gored in elaborate pattern with yoke over shoulders and triangular gussets inset from rounded bottom edge; back longer than front.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6736, described as Woman's fish skin parka, hooded, gored in elaborate pattern with yoke over shoulders and triangular gussets inset from rounded bottom edge; back longer than front.

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