Hood
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Feb 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Fox skin. 19th century man's hat: Data provided 15th Dec. '82 by Dr. Ilja S. Gurvich, Head of Northern and Siberian Peoples Dept., Institute of Ethnography, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Recorded by Wm. C. Sturtevant."
label: Notes
content: Identified by Zinaida Ivanova, Arctic Institute of Culture and Arts, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia Federation, 11-7-2012 as a hood made of fox fur, with lower part made of lynx fur.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Hood. Bergehe.19th century, second half. Fur (fox, lynx), hide. Sewing. Front H.: 38, back H.: 28, W.: 60. Band W.: 9. This hood is made from a combination of different furs. The upper part is sewn from red fox fur, there are alternating stripes of dark brown and red fox feet skin on the back, and below that is a narrow strip of dark dog fur. A similar piece of dark fur adorns the frontal part of the hood. The hood is trimmed with lynx fur in a circle. It has two pairs of leather straps of which the shorter ones are tied under the chin while the longer ones are tied up over the top of the head.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025334
label: USNM Number
content: E153527-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 60 cm