Trousers

Museum number:
2-6934
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
131 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
Trousers made of brown caribou skin, hair out. Triangular crotch gusset from front to back, otherwise made according to basic "legging pants" pattern (Hatt 1914). No decoration of any sort. Several holes in legs very neatly mended. Made with rawhide and sinew thread.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Trousers
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— height 8 centimeters, measurements for storage— width 30 centimeters, measurements for storage— width 108 centimeters, length 115 centimeters, and measurements for storage— length 119 centimeters
Comment:
References: See card # 2-2685.
Loans:
S1970-1971 #81B: Burckhalter Elementary School/Ann Schiebelhut (February 17, 1971–February 24, 1971)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-6934, described as Trousers made of brown caribou skin, hair out. Triangular crotch gusset from front to back, otherwise made according to basic "legging pants" pattern (Hatt 1914). No decoration of any sort. Several holes in legs very neatly mended. Made with rawhide and sinew thread.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-6934, described as Trousers made of brown caribou skin, hair out. Triangular crotch gusset from front to back, otherwise made according to basic "legging pants" pattern (Hatt 1914). No decoration of any sort. Several holes in legs very neatly mended. Made with rawhide and sinew thread.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-6934, described as Trousers made of brown caribou skin, hair out. Triangular crotch gusset from front to back, otherwise made according to basic "legging pants" pattern (Hatt 1914). No decoration of any sort. Several holes in legs very neatly mended. Made with rawhide and sinew thread.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Trousers, accession number 2-6934, described as Trousers made of brown caribou skin, hair out. Triangular crotch gusset from front to back, otherwise made according to basic "legging pants" pattern (Hatt 1914). No decoration of any sort. Several holes in legs very neatly mended. Made with rawhide and sinew thread.

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