Trousers

Museum number:
2-6385
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2578 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Trousers made of brown and white mottled caribou skin, fur out. Drawstring and drawstring tubes around waist and cuffs. Undecorated. These trousers differ slightly for basic "leggings pants" type (Hatt 1914) by use of gussets and piecings along inseams. Possibly woman's or child's. Made with caribou hide, rawhide thong, and sinew thread.
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
Taxon:
Rangifer and Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Trousers
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
for man
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— length 104 centimeters, measurements for storage— width 130 centimeters, measurements for storage— width 38 centimeters, length 80 centimeters, and measurements for storage— height 7 centimeters
Comment:
References: Hatt, G. Arctic Skin Clothing, Schultz, Copenhagen, 1914 (& Arct. Anth. v.2 1969).
Loans:
S1965-1966 #23: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (September 29, 1965–September 29, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-6385, described as Trousers made of brown and white mottled caribou skin, fur out. Drawstring and drawstring tubes around waist and cuffs. Undecorated. These trousers differ slightly for basic "leggings pants" type (Hatt 1914) by use of gussets and piecings along inseams. Possibly woman's or child's. Made with caribou hide, rawhide thong, and sinew thread.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-6385, described as Trousers made of brown and white mottled caribou skin, fur out. Drawstring and drawstring tubes around waist and cuffs. Undecorated. These trousers differ slightly for basic "leggings pants" type (Hatt 1914) by use of gussets and piecings along inseams. Possibly woman's or child's. Made with caribou hide, rawhide thong, and sinew thread.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-6385, described as Trousers made of brown and white mottled caribou skin, fur out. Drawstring and drawstring tubes around waist and cuffs. Undecorated. These trousers differ slightly for basic "leggings pants" type (Hatt 1914) by use of gussets and piecings along inseams. Possibly woman's or child's. Made with caribou hide, rawhide thong, and sinew thread.

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