Parka
- Museum number:
- 9-21453
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021453
- Accession number:
- Acc.4605
- Description:
- Festival Parka, w/ hood and flap. Reindeer skin w/ fur inside. Skin dyed w/alder bark solution; urine mordant. Decorated with bead medallions and rosettes, tassels of seal fur died with alder, suede fringes; hemmed with sable. Length across shoulders and sleeves = 164.0cm; Length neck to hem = 58.0cm; Circumferance of hem = 274.0cm.
- Donor:
- Molly Lee
- Collection place:
- Siberia, Russia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Russia, Siberia, Achai-Viam region [mixed Chawchuvens & chukchi], upper Opuk River
- Culture or time period:
- Chukchi
- Materials:
- Fur (hair material) and Reindeer hide
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Parkas
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- September 28, 1993
- Context of use:
- Made in 1970s. Owned and worn by Serguei Serov. Donated in his memory.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Images:
-