- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cloak made of intestine with embroidered decoration.
- Geographical reference
- Aleutian Islands
- Cultural groups
- Unangan
- Person
- Field collector Frederick William Beechey
- Field collector HMS Blossom
- PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
- Date / Period
- Date made: On or before 1826
- Date collected
- ?On or before 1826
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 18/02/1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Seal Intestine Animal, Material Pigment, Process Embroidered, Process Appliqué, Process Stitched, Process Dyed, Process Stained
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1290 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.871 Other numbers: 137
- Research and responses
Among notable labours of restoration has been Mr. Walter’s work on Eskimo garments of walrus and seal intestine collected by the historic expeditions of the early 19th century. These beautiful transparent costumes were hard as boards and breaking up, and fur was falling from the rest of our Eskimo and Siberian clothing. He treated the lot with medicinal paraffin brushed lightly into the skin, and they became supple and easily mended, and no more fur falls out. Abstract from The Museums Annual report 1941 [KJ 12/05/2009]
This object does not appear in the list of Beechey objects in Collectors Miscellaneous XI 71 - 75 [AP 20/7/99]
Please note that there was no further information about Beechey on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities. [L.Ph 23/3/2004]
1886.1.871
Cloak made of intestine with embroidered decoration.
On display
1886.1.871
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