Womans House Trunks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Oct 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Riley D. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Soft tanned white leather trimmed with brown leather, fringe and stitching. Worn in the house. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 258, p. 203." Crossroads caption calls these leather briefs.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=678 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: House pants. "These house pants are for women. Women would dance in these pants, with beads around their necks. ... A cover goes over the pants, and women would wear white and black panels that would hang down in the front and back. ... Dyed reindeer hair was used for the stitching in the past, and then they switched to embroidery thread." - Elaine Kingeekuk, 2007 The inner chamber of a traditional walrus-hide-covered Yupik home was heated with oil lamps, which kept it warm enough for the family to wear very minimal clothing. Men wore simple loin cloths and women wore these trunklike garments called kakak.The tasseled pants are made of tanned, scraped reindeer hide with borders of bleached and alder-dyed skin. The embroidery on the front panel is segeni, designs stitched with reindeer hair. Short pants of this kind were customary on St. Lawrence Island, in the Yupik communities of Siberia, and among the Chukchi.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055962
label: USNM Number
content: E280117-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pants
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 37 cm