TWO INUIT MODEL PARKAS, of fine gutskin with red-dyed skin borders, one with further skin bands suspending dark brown feathers

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TWO INUIT MODEL PARKAS, of fine gutskin with red-dyed skin borders, one with further skin bands suspending dark brown feathers
26cm. long (2)

Lot Essay

These model parkas, made from the intestines of sea mammals, are miniature versions of those made by the Inuits of St Lawrence Island who also traded them to the Maritime Chukchi

Cf. Fitzhugh and Crowell, 1988, p.221, fig.292

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