Man's Coat, Squirrel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Mar 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department of Agriculture
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MAN'S, SQUIRREL. Fur coats. Inventoried 1975 LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE, ILLUS: FIG. 107, P. 95. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Caption for Fig. 107 in Crossroads of Continents catalogue, which is on p. 94, identifies this object as: "Man's Ground Squirrel Parka, Bering Sea Eskimo. Nelson was one of the few naturalists working for Baird who wrote full reports on all aspects of his work. ... Even the few specimens he retained in his private collection, including this parka, eventually came to rest in the National Museum of Natural History."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031796
label: USNM Number
content: E176104-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Parka