Man's Seal Skin Shirt

Item number E1072-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/134 , retrieved 12-10-2019: Man's shirt. The front and the back of the shirt are made from a whole seal hide. The arms are pieced to give dark hide along the top of the arm and a lighter skin along the under side of the arm. On the upper arm, below the shoulder, is a skin fringe and ochre band. The band does not extend all the way under the arm pit. At the bottom of the shirt is a band of caribou skin, a red ochre line, and a fringe of skin. The neckline is finished with skin and long skin tags. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/50: Shirts without hoods were worn under parkas in winter, or by themselves in summer.