Coat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2004
label: Collection Date
content: 1997
name: label: Collector
content: Sven Haakanson Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William Fitzhugh
notes: label: Notes
content: WOMAN'S WINTER HOLIDAY COAT (YAGUSHKA), MADE BY RIESA SEROTETTA OF REINDEER HIDE. HAS ARCTIC FOX FUR COLLAR AND REINDEER HIDE MITTENS STITCHED INTO COAT ARMS. SEWN WITH REINDEER SINEW. COAT IS TWO-LAYERED, LINED WITH FUR, WITH FUR EXTERIOR. INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PIECES STITCHED TOGETHER. DECORATED WITH FUR AND RED WOOLEN FABRIC INLAY WORK IN "BIRCH TREE" DESIGN, WHICH MAY RESEMBLE DESIGNS ON NEOLITHIC WESTERN SIBERIAN POTTERY AND MAY REPRESENT ANCESTOR FIGURES. ALSO HAS RED, BLUE, AND MUSTARD YELLOW WOOLEN FABRIC STRIPS STITCHED INTO FUR. SOME FUR MISSING FROM FRONT PANEL HIDES. ACCORDING TO COLLECTOR, THIS COAT IS OF SMALLER THAN AVERAGE SIZE BECAUSE MAKER IS VERY SMALL WOMAN. ACQUIRED BY COLLECTOR THROUGH TRADE AGREEMENT MADE WITH ANDRE AND RIESA SEROTTA (HUSBAND AND WIFE) FOR THREE BEAVER PELTS PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FOR $120.00 (AMERICAN DOLLARS) EACH, TOTALING #360.00 DOLLARS. USED BY COLLECTOR AS SLEEPING JACKET DURING FALL RESEARCH SEASON IN 1997. WOULD TRADITIONALLY BE USED PRIMARILY FOR HOLIDAYS. SEE ACCESSION RECORDS AND "LIVING YAMAL" EXHIBIT CATALOG (BY IGOR KRUPNIK AND NATALYA NARINSKAYA, 1998, PP. 12, 19, 25) FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nenets
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420725
label: USNM Number
content: E430436-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Coat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 116 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 168 cm