Parka

Museum number:
2-2984
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
Prob. page 14 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.26
Description:
Parka with hood, walrus gut; hood has cotton draw-sting; round flaring towards bottom; sealskin strip at hem. Cost Capt. Cushing $7.00.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Diomede Island, Siberia, Russia
Verbatim coll. place:
Russia; Siberia; Great Diomede Island
Culture or time period:
Eskimo
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Parkas
Accession date:
December 16, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 106 centimeters, measurements for storage— length 80 centimeters, and measurements for storage— width 51 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-2984, described as Parka with hood, walrus gut; hood has cotton draw-sting; round flaring towards bottom; sealskin strip at hem. Cost Capt. Cushing $7.00.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-2984, described as Parka with hood, walrus gut; hood has cotton draw-sting; round flaring towards bottom; sealskin strip at hem. Cost Capt. Cushing $7.00.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-2984, described as Parka with hood, walrus gut; hood has cotton draw-sting; round flaring towards bottom; sealskin strip at hem. Cost Capt. Cushing $7.00.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-2984, described as Parka with hood, walrus gut; hood has cotton draw-sting; round flaring towards bottom; sealskin strip at hem. Cost Capt. Cushing $7.00.

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