Trousers Or Overalls, Seal Skin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Apr 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 36, p. 134 in Turner, Lucien M., and Ray Hudson. 2008. An Aleutian ethnography. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. Identified there: "Sealskin trousers ... ideally suited to fishing from a skin boat [kayak]. They were relatively waterproof and were easily cleaned of any slime from fish that were stowed inside the craft, where the fisherman's legs were immobile for long periods of time." See also p. 133.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Atka Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aleut (Unangax^ ; Unangan; Unangas) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00013
label: USNM Number
content: E65281-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trousers