Trousers

Museum number:
2-7229
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Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Trousers made of sealskin, hair out. Several added crotch gussets in back. Otherwise basic "leggings out" cut (Hatt 1914) with wast and cuff drawstrings in tubes. No decoration. Very old and worn-out specimen.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Trousers
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— length 88 centimeters, length 82 centimeters, and measurements for storage— width 32 centimeters
Comment:
References: See card #2-6385.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-7229, described as Trousers made of sealskin, hair out. Several added crotch gussets in back. Otherwise basic "leggings out" cut (Hatt 1914) with wast and cuff drawstrings in tubes. No decoration. Very old and worn-out specimen.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-7229, described as Trousers made of sealskin, hair out. Several added crotch gussets in back. Otherwise basic "leggings out" cut (Hatt 1914) with wast and cuff drawstrings in tubes. No decoration. Very old and worn-out specimen.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-7229, described as Trousers made of sealskin, hair out. Several added crotch gussets in back. Otherwise basic "leggings out" cut (Hatt 1914) with wast and cuff drawstrings in tubes. No decoration. Very old and worn-out specimen.

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