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Coat

human history
  • Other Name

    blanket

    parka

  • Description

    Coat, parka

    Made from wool, cotton thread, cotton textile, metal, and fur. The coat has a hood, long sleeves, and sits thigh length. The exterior of coat is a dense cream coloured wool. The interior is lined with a cream coloured cotton textile. A metal zip closure runs up the front centre. There is a slight point to hood. The hood is edged with brown fox fur with the tail hanging loose down right shoulder. Hand embroidered designs run along the bottom hem, cuffs and shoulders of the coat. Embroidery on shoulders and cuffs are of floral designs with triangle boarders surrounding in blue, green, red, and yellow. The lower section of the coat has embroidered images of a woman carrying a child in a backpack. A knife, an igloo, a figure wearing blue, a hunting trap, an ulu knife, a person on a dog sled, and a walrus with harpoons

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1969.101
  • Accession Date
    1969
  • Other Id

    41480 (ethnology)

  • Department

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