LEGACY: TRANSCEND

Gut Raincoat
Unangax̂ or Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, likely early 20th C.
Summer-processed bear intestine. Cotton drawstring at hood with pink yarn tassels. Trimmed with printed cotton fabric trims at sleeve openings and bottom hem, sewn with thread. Fragments of wrist ties at sleeve openings. Overall sinew-sewn construction with double-couched stitch.
ASM UA/UC-69

Ceremonial Gut Parka
St. Lawrence Island Yupik, mid-20th C.
Winter-processed bearded seal intestine, seal fur, other fur, red cotton fabric, unborn seal trim at sleeve openings and hem. Overall machine-sewn thread construction.
Gift of Samantha Dane. Collected by Mary Sargent. ASM 2013-28-1

Gut Raincoat
Yup’ik (attributed), likely early 20th C.
Summer-processed bearded seal intestine. Thick cotton cord drawstring and fabric trim around hood. Overall thread-sewn construction with stab-stitched seams reinforced by beach grass.
Gift of R.T. and Lynn Wallen. ASM 2017-12-5

Hoodless Gut Raincoat
Alutiiq/Sugpiaq or Athabascan, early 20th C.
Summer-processed bear intestine. Twisted sinew drawstring with one red yarn tassel remaining at hood. Twisted sinew wrist ties at sleeve openings. Trimmed with cotton fabric at neck, sleeve openings, and bottom hem. Colorful yarn tufts in seams. Overall sinew-sewn construction with double couched stitch.
ASM UA/UC-82

Gut Raincoat
Yup’ik (attributed), likely early 20th C.
Summer-processed bearded seal intestine. Unfinished hood and sleeve openings. Overall sinew-sewn construction with stab-stitched seams reinforced by beach grass.
Collected before 1913 by Lt. George Thornton Emmons, likely through Louis L. Bales. ASM II-A-4720

Gut Raincoat
Inupiaq (attributed), possibly from Little Diomede, likely early 20th C.
Summer-processed walrus intestine. Narrow sealskin trim at hood, no drawstring. Overall thread-sewn construction with running stitch.
Collected by R.T. Wallen. LC.453-34

Gut Raincoat
Iñupiaq (attributed), likely early 20th C.
Summer-processed bearded seal intestine. Cotton drawstring at hood. Narrow sealskin trims at hood and sleeve openings. Seal fur trim at bottom hem. Overall thread-sewn construction with running-stitched seams plus double-couched stitch in dark thread at shoulders and upper torso.
ASM II-A-4856

Gut Raincoat
Iñupiaq (attributed), likely early 20th C.
Summer-processed bearded seal intestine. Cotton drawstring at hood. Trimmed with narrow sealskin strips at hood and sleeve openings. Patterned cotton fabric lining inside bottom hem. Overall thread-sewn construction with running stitch.
Possibly part of gold rush-era Muncaster Collection. ASM UA/UC-83

Gut Raincoat
St. Lawrence Island Yupik, likely early 20th C.
Summer-processed walrus intestine. Braided sinew drawstring at hood. Narrow sealskin trim at hood. Seal fur trim at sleeve openings and hem. Overall sewn construction with running stitch in black thread.
Collected by Dr. Daniel S. Neuman. ASM II-F-273

Gut Raincoat
Iñupiaq from Kotzebue, likely early 20th C.
Summer-processed bearded seal intestine. Cotton drawstring at hood. Green cotton fabric trims at hood, sleeve openings, and bottom hem. Overall thread-sewn construction with running stitched seams plus double-couched stitch in dark thread at shoulders and upper torso.
Made for reindeer herder Chester Seveck of Kotzebue.
Gift of John D. Heath. ASM II-A-6855

Hoodless Gut Raincoat
Alutiiq/Sugpiaq or Athabascan, likely early 20th C.
Summer-processed bear intestine. Red-patterned cotton fabric trim at neck, wrist openings, and bottom hem. Colorful yarn tufts adorn seams. Sinew wrist ties at sleeve openings. Overall sinew-sewn construction with double-couched stitch.
ASM II-A-4051

Gut Raincoat
Unangax̂ from Umnak Island, early 20th C.
Summer-processed northern fur seal or Steller sea lion intestine. Drawstring at hood missing. Painted esophagus trims at hood, bottom hem, and many seams. Loops remain on sleeve openings for wrist ties, now missing. Sleeve openings reinforced with plant fiber inside piping. Overall sinew-sewn construction with double-couched stitch.
Gift of Shirlee M. Johnson. Collected by her father Victor Manville in 1939. ASM II-F-181

Ceremonial Gut Parka
Rosie Kulukhom (St. Lawrence Island Yupik) of Gambell, mid-20th C.
Winter-processed bearded seal intestine. Cotton drawstring at hood. Narrow sealskin trim at hood. Unborn seal fur trim at sleeve openings and bottom hem. Adorned with crested auklet feathers and rictal plates (beak parts) with red leather. Overall sewn construction with running stitch in black thread.
ASM II-A-4526