Atka Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
Accession Date:
7 Apr 1882
Notes:
FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975."
Illus. Fig. 36, p. 134 in Turner, Lucien M., and Ray Hudson. 2008. An Aleutian ethnography. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. Identified there: "Sealskin trousers ... ideally suited to fishing from a skin boat [kayak]. They were relatively waterproof and were easily cleaned of any slime from fish that were stowed inside the craft, where the fisherman's legs were immobile for long periods of time." See also p. 133.
