Skin Coat
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: Illus. Fig. 11, a-e, in Reed, Fran, "Embellishments of the Alaska Native Gut Parka" (2008). Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. Paper 283. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/283 . Identified there: "[Parka] ... is in a style very typical of the St. Lawrence parka. It has the vertical seams with crested auklet feathers and mandibles each with a small dyed seal skin tab. The shoulders are embellished with dyed baby seal and the hood with bird feathers. A vertically-stitched winter gut parka with tufts of beaver and mink with dyed baby seal and fabric. Dyed seal skin was used in the seams."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055962
label: USNM Number
content: E280186-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Parka