Woman's parka, with a complex check-work pattern with sleeves and hood of ground squirrel skin. Deeply scalloped hem with front and back flaps. Elaborate hood of ground squirrel and white caribou; red thread and clipped caribou decoration. Hem has similar decoration. Cuffs of wolverine. Sinew thread used. Possibly made with mink.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
Bering Sea, Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Northwest
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Gulo gulo, Neovison vison, and Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Parkas
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
1.39 centimeters, measurements for storage— length 143 centimeters, measurements for storage— height 11 centimeters, 96 centimeters, and measurements for storage— width 160 centimeters
Comment:
References: Similar parka described in Nelson, 1899, p. 36, pl. 18.
Loans:
S1965-1966 #23: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (September 29, 1965–September 29, 1965), S1967-1968 #104: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (February 28, 1968–March 4, 1968), S1968-1969 #50: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (November 26, 1968–November 26, 1968), and S1976-1977 #88: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (June 20, 1977–September 8, 1977)