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Parka, men’s winter garment. Komi; Komi

Title:

Parka, men’s winter garment

Ethnic groups:

Komi; Komi

Territory:

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, district, village

Date:

сер. XX в.

Collectors-person:
Material:

Fur (reindeer)

Number:

РЭМ 7242-4

Annotation:

Parka, men’s winter garment of grayish-white deer fur, with a white hood strapped up with a cord; it is put on over the head, fur outside. The parka is worn over a malica; it is a reindeer herdsmen’s clothing made from the skin of a nebluj (a calf five or six months old). Both men and women wear it in winter nomad camps in heavy frost and blizzard. Abstract by A.A. Chuvyurov