Man's Parkie, Parka
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1, PL. XVII, P. 53." Parka is also described on p. 35 of publication: "A man's [parka]... made of reindeer [caribou]-fawn skin and has a hood which forms a part of the garment instead of being worn separately as is done further inland. From the shoulders hanging down both in front and behind depend broad strips of reindeer [caribou] skin with the fur cut short and having attached to their tips strings of white, red, and blue beads from five to six inches in length with narrow strips of wolverine fur. From the middle of the hood behind hangs a strip of reindeer skin, tipped with wolverine fur. Little tassels of red-bearskin are attached to strips of white-deer skin, set in, gore-like, over the tops of shoulders. Two shap-pointed gores of white-deer skin are set in above the waist. The hood has an inner border of arctic-hare skin followed by a strip of wolf skin. The lower end of the sleeves is bordered by a band of white-deer skin, edged by a narrow border of mink fur, the lower edge of the garment being bordered in the same manner. This is one of the most ornamental garments of the kind seen in that district."
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 33 in Fienup-Riordan Ann Alice Rearden and Marie Meade. 2023. Tengautuli Atkuk = the Flying Parka : The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Caption notes: "Looking at this parka ... Martina John remarked: "It seems this is red fox from the summer; their old fur had shed and was replaced. And the sleeves are made from caribou legs, probably since they lacked materials. It has great signs of wear." Martina's companions Albertina Dull and Elsie Tommy, also commented on the parka's curved bottom and the kakauyaq (hood decoration) made with tassels of wolverine belly fur and beads, which Martina admired. "
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cape Vancouver, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E49107-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Parka