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Parka

Object Number:NA3225
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Eskimo
Provenience: Alaska
Culture Area: Subarctic Culture Area
Arctic Culture Area (uncertain)
Section:American
Materials:Skin
Fish Skin
Length: 74.5 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from E. E. Patterson, Kotzebue Fur and Trading Company, 1915

Description

Fishskin parka trimmed with fur at hood, wrists and bottom edge. Girl's.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Raven's Journey: The World of Alaska's Native People ( Nov 1986 - Feb 2010) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Barsness, Kristin J., and Kaplan, Susan A. 1986. Raven's Journey.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 121, fig. 79; p. 112, pl. 18View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Collection] Williams, Lucy F. 2003. Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 23, pl. 6View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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