Fur Cap For Men

Item number E37904-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1977."This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.Photo and description in Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 2007. Yuungnaqpiallerput, The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival. Seattle: University Of Washington Press, p. 315Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=82 , retrieved 10-24-2018; see web page for additional information: Hat, Yup'ik. This simple caribou fur hat, trimmed along the bottom with bear or wolverine, reminded Yup'ik elders of the ways that clothing expresses place, identity, and family, and how it connects the thoughts and lives of human and animal beings. People wore circular caps like this in regions south of the Yukon River, where parkas were made without hoods.