Woman's Parka
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Jul 1995
label: Collection Date
content: Mar 1994
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. Robert Malott
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Robert Malott
notes: label: Notes
content: Parka made of caribou fur in pullover style with side slits and hood. Hide fringe extends from slit to slit. Initials "EM" written on inside lower section of parka. Commissioned by Robert Malott (a member of the Board of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History) for his wife, Elizabeth and worn by her on a dog sled trip they took with a group of friends in March 1994. Part of 2 sets of clothing made for Mr. and Mrs. Malott in the winter of 1994 by a local co-op group of Igloolik Inuit women, mostly wives of members of the Hunters and Trappers Association in Igloolik, Northwest Territories, Canada (see also catalog numbers E432061-E432068).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 May 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 409929
label: USNM Number
content: E432065-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Parka
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 137 cm
label: Width - Object (Including Sleeves)
content: 97 cm
label: Depth - Hood
content: 28 cm