Objects
Wooden sea hunter’s cap. Aleuts
Wooden sea hunter’s cap. Aleuts
Title
Wooden sea hunter’s cap
Ethnic groups
Aleuts
Date
Second half of the 19th century
Collectors
Museum of the Peoples of the USSR
Rubrics
Costume
Material
Wood; animal derived materials: tooth: tusk; fibers: animal: barb; paint
Number
РЭМ 8762-16762
Annotation
Wooden sea hunter’s cap, triangular, with one longer end. The cap’s surface is decorated with alternating color stripes. A sea animal hunting scene is shown on the green stripe in black ink. Attached to the back of the cap is a decorative bone plate and walrus whiskers, and to the front, a bone bird figurine. Such headgear protected the hunter’s eyes against sunlight flecks on the water and against inflammation. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva