Child`s Bear Gut Parka
Sugpiaq (Alutiiq)
Western Arctic
Arctic
collected 1905
Bear gut (intestine), wool yarn, commercial thread, cotton cloth trim, leather
Overall: 14 9/16 in. (37 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9801
Geography
Place Made: Bering Strait, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 05, Introduction to Archaeology, Nathaniel Kitchel, Summer 2019
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-April 21, 2019.
Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 14, 1990.
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Bering Sea, Alaska, probably 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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