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frock(?); parka(?)

Object Type: frock (?); parka (?)
Museum number: Am1986,18.14
Description: Frock or parka made of sea mammal gut, edged with black and red skin applique areas.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Arctic Peoples; Made by: Aleut
Production date: 1780-1880
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Alaska (state)
Materials: gut; skin
Technique
Dimensions: Length: 137 centimetres; Width: 100 centimetres
Curator's comments: This probably goes with the cap which follows: no.15.
Bibliographic references: Cruickshank, Romanek & Gómez 2011 / Arctic Survival; Gómez et al 2014 / An Aleut cape and cap made of sea mammal intestine: from storage to display (p.73-81, p.74, fig.1, p.75, fig.3, p.76, fig.5, p.77, fig.6-7, p.78, fig.9, p.79, fig.10-11)
Location: On display (G26/dc10)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1999 3 Mar-20 Jun, BM Room 35, Creative Solutions: Conservation of the Ethnographic Collections 2011-2020 2 Mar-20 Aug, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Arctic" 2020-2021 October-Feb, London, BM, Arctic: culture and climate
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Royal Institution of Cornwall; Purchased through: County Museum, Truro
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1986
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am1986,18.14
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1986 Am 18.224; Miscellaneous number: 224 (Truro number)
Conservation: Treatment; Treatment: 09 Jul 2010