Parka

2003-43-5

From: Siberia | Amur River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 2003-43-5
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Siberia | Amur River
Culture Area Siberia
Section American
Materials Intestine | Fur | Cloth
Technique Tanned | Sewn
Description

Pullover adult jacket with hood. Made of strips of tanned intestine, sewn together with a grass fiber. Trimmed with segments of fur sewn along seams across shoulder, chest and along hem. Dyed narrow strip of intestine outlines shoulder, chest, and hem areas.

Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1899.1.5 - Other Number | 350/22 Geografical Society - Other Number | 74-1-113 - Other Number

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