Woman's Parka
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: "WOMAN'S, SQUIRREL AND SEAL. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE. ILLUS.: CATALOGUE; FIG. 41, P.42. RETURNED FROM LOAN 6-25-91." Captions in Crossroads of Continents catalogue identify this Bering Sea Inuit woman's parka as a "... fancy festival parka made of ground squirrel [spotted skins]. wolf, wolverine [trim], and mink. Imported white Siberian reindeer fur was used for accent [in lower panels and welted border strips]." A detail of the front of the parka is also illus. Fig. 291B, p. 220 in the Crossroads of Continents catalogue.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=657 , retrieved 10-26-2021; see web page for additional information: Parka, Yup'ik. This is a northern-style woman's fancy parka, a type made by both the Iñupiat and by Yup'ik residents of southern Norton Sound to Hooper Bay.The upper body was sewn from arctic ground squirrel pelts and the rounded lower apron is white reindeer or caribou fur. The dark trim and tassels are wolverine fur and the hood has a wolf hair ruff. Sheared and welted strips of white reindeer or caribou fur are accented with tiny loops of red yarn, and bands of alder bark-dyed reddish skin outline the fur panels.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2022
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: E176105-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Parka
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 141 cm