Parka

Museum number:
2-6908
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020006908
Alternate number:
148 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
Man's parka, "two-skin" cut with sleeves and hood of brown caribou. Gently scalloped hip-length bottom hem. (Rear is 7 cm longer than the front. "Three-piece" hood construction with white hood roots. Elaborate hood facing for wolf, wolverine and caribou. Collar-ties of dyed and braided yarn. Wolverine fringe around the hem and in the center of the back. Made with caribou, wolf, wolverine, sinew thread and wool yarn.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
Bering Strait, Nome Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Strait
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Gulo gulo
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Parkas
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— length 102 centimeters, 42 inches, measurements for storage— height 11 centimeters, and measurements for storage— width 122 centimeters
Loans:
S1986-1987 #16: Stan Musilek (January 20, 1987–January 21, 1987)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6908, described as Man's parka, "two-skin" cut with sleeves and hood of brown caribou. Gently scalloped hip-length bottom hem. (Rear is 7 cm longer than the front. "Three-piece" hood construction with white hood roots. Elaborate hood facing for wolf, wolverine and caribou. Collar-ties of dyed and braided yarn. Wolverine fringe around the hem and in the center of the back. Made with caribou, wolf, wolverine, sinew thread and wool yarn.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6908, described as Man's parka, "two-skin" cut with sleeves and hood of brown caribou. Gently scalloped hip-length bottom hem. (Rear is 7 cm longer than the front. "Three-piece" hood construction with white hood roots. Elaborate hood facing for wolf, wolverine and caribou. Collar-ties of dyed and braided yarn. Wolverine fringe around the hem and in the center of the back. Made with caribou, wolf, wolverine, sinew thread and wool yarn.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parka, accession number 2-6908, described as Man's parka, "two-skin" cut with sleeves and hood of brown caribou. Gently scalloped hip-length bottom hem. (Rear is 7 cm longer than the front. "Three-piece" hood construction with white hood roots. Elaborate hood facing for wolf, wolverine and caribou. Collar-ties of dyed and braided yarn. Wolverine fringe around the hem and in the center of the back. Made with caribou, wolf, wolverine, sinew thread and wool yarn.

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