Gutskin Parka
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Collector
content: Riley D. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Hooded parka made of horizontal strips of parchment-like gut, stitched together with black thread. Hood fringed with two rows of gray feathers. Almost all seams decorated with crests from the crested auklet, a pair spaced every five or so centimeters. Fringe of white fur at hem and sleeves. Very good condition. Identical to those parkas found unaccessioned from the Moore collection. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22, 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21, 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 292, p. 221. This parka formerly #d T1087A and was Illus. in The Far North catalogue, Natl. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 66 as T1087. Note on card for T1087A says it had an original tag that said "Holmes Fund No. 7." See note in T # book for T9557 for more information. - F. Pickering." Illus. Fig. 292, p. 221 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there as a St. Lawrence Island Eskimo gutskin parka: "Cleaning and inflating yards of walrus intestine were the first steps in creating beautiful, waterproof gutskin garments like ... [this] dress parka ... . The inflated intestine was hung up to dry; if in winter, it would be bleached white by the wind and cold. The seamstress sewed strips of split, dried intestine together with sinew thread to create a parka, working tiny auklet beaks and feathers into the seams for decorative effect."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island (not certain), Bering Sea (not certain), Alaska (not certain), United States (not certain), 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: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1676-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Parka
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 124 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 143 cm