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"Based on nearly two decades of the authors' conversations with Yup'ik sewing groups in southwestern Alaskan communities and in group visits to the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of Natural History to examine historical parkas, this volume documents the social importance of parkas, the intricacies of their construction, and their exceptional beauty"--

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"Based on nearly two decades of the authors' conversations with Yup'ik sewing groups in southwestern Alaskan communities and in group visits to the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of Natural History to examine historical parkas, this volume documents the social importance of parkas, the intricacies of their construction, and their exceptional beauty"--
Autorenporträt
Cultural anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan is the author of numerous books on the Native peoples of Alaska, including Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather: Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast (University of Washington Press, 2012) and Yup'ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head (University of Washington Press, 2005).