Parka

Museum number:
2-6687
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020006687
Alternate number:
x-2880 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Woman's parka, complex pattern with sleeves and hood of belly and flank caribou skin. Hem deeply scalloped with front and back flaps of equal length (Knee-length). Modified "three-piece" hood with white hood-roots, wolf and wolverine trim. Body with decorative trim of clipped caribou and red thread. No cuffs or cuff trim.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Bering Sea and North, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Sea and North
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Gulo gulo and Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Parkas
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
According to Elizabeth Goodwin (Alaskan Eskim, July 1978), this is a chiefs wifes parka.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
120 centimeters, measurements for storage— width 125 centimeters, measurements for storage— height 7 centimeters, 89 centimeters, and measurements for storage— length 135 centimeters
Comment:
References: Similar to Pt. Barrow Esk. parka in Murdoch, Am. Ethn. Rpt., 1892, pp. 118-119, figs. 61-64.
Loans:
S1961-1962 #30: Decorative Arts Department (UC Berkeley)/Anna Hadwick Gayton (December 1, 1961–December 1, 1961) and S1976-1977 #88: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (June 20, 1977–September 8, 1977)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6687, described as Woman's parka, complex pattern with sleeves and hood of belly and flank caribou skin. Hem deeply scalloped with front and back flaps of equal length (Knee-length). Modified "three-piece" hood with white hood-roots, wolf and wolverine trim. Body with decorative trim of clipped caribou and red thread. No cuffs or cuff trim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6687, described as Woman's parka, complex pattern with sleeves and hood of belly and flank caribou skin. Hem deeply scalloped with front and back flaps of equal length (Knee-length). Modified "three-piece" hood with white hood-roots, wolf and wolverine trim. Body with decorative trim of clipped caribou and red thread. No cuffs or cuff trim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6687, described as Woman's parka, complex pattern with sleeves and hood of belly and flank caribou skin. Hem deeply scalloped with front and back flaps of equal length (Knee-length). Modified "three-piece" hood with white hood-roots, wolf and wolverine trim. Body with decorative trim of clipped caribou and red thread. No cuffs or cuff trim.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6687, described as Woman's parka, complex pattern with sleeves and hood of belly and flank caribou skin. Hem deeply scalloped with front and back flaps of equal length (Knee-length). Modified "three-piece" hood with white hood-roots, wolf and wolverine trim. Body with decorative trim of clipped caribou and red thread. No cuffs or cuff trim.

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