Arctic Clothing

In the Arctic, well designed and superbly tailored clothing allows people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions. Both sea and land animals, birds and fish, provide raw materials for the creation of unique forms of highly efficient clothing - different types of parkas, trousers, layered footwear, gloves and headwear. Such clothing not only protects people but also connects societies to the environment that they inhabit and expresses the continuing importance of animals, birds and fish to these communities. Arctic clothing encompasses a great diversity of national and community styles and also contemporary and traditional costume making. Questions of identity, the semiotics and function of dress, and the copyright and ownership of design are explored along with the nature of people's creativity in rapidly changing traditional societies. The contemporary issues of changes in clothing, the importation of manufactured materials, developments in fashion, clothing and art, and the adaptation of Native clothing by explorers and for sportswear are all examined. Several essays address previously unpublished areas such as fish-skin clothing, hairnets, the use of grass, birds and costume, and kayak clothing.

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Arctic Clothing

In the Arctic, well designed and superbly tailored clothing allows people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions. Both sea and land animals, birds and fish, provide raw materials for the creation of unique forms of highly efficient clothing - different types of parkas, trousers, layered footwear, gloves and headwear. Such clothing not only protects people but also connects societies to the environment that they inhabit and expresses the continuing importance of animals, birds and fish to these communities. Arctic clothing encompasses a great diversity of national and community styles and also contemporary and traditional costume making. Questions of identity, the semiotics and function of dress, and the copyright and ownership of design are explored along with the nature of people's creativity in rapidly changing traditional societies. The contemporary issues of changes in clothing, the importation of manufactured materials, developments in fashion, clothing and art, and the adaptation of Native clothing by explorers and for sportswear are all examined. Several essays address previously unpublished areas such as fish-skin clothing, hairnets, the use of grass, birds and costume, and kayak clothing.

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Arctic Clothing

Arctic Clothing

Arctic Clothing

Arctic Clothing

Overview

In the Arctic, well designed and superbly tailored clothing allows people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions. Both sea and land animals, birds and fish, provide raw materials for the creation of unique forms of highly efficient clothing - different types of parkas, trousers, layered footwear, gloves and headwear. Such clothing not only protects people but also connects societies to the environment that they inhabit and expresses the continuing importance of animals, birds and fish to these communities. Arctic clothing encompasses a great diversity of national and community styles and also contemporary and traditional costume making. Questions of identity, the semiotics and function of dress, and the copyright and ownership of design are explored along with the nature of people's creativity in rapidly changing traditional societies. The contemporary issues of changes in clothing, the importation of manufactured materials, developments in fashion, clothing and art, and the adaptation of Native clothing by explorers and for sportswear are all examined. Several essays address previously unpublished areas such as fish-skin clothing, hairnets, the use of grass, birds and costume, and kayak clothing.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780773530089
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date: 10/24/2005
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author


J.C.H. King is responsible for the North American collection, Department of Ethnography, the British Museum.
Birgit Pauksztat is the Thaw Special Assistant, Department of Ethnography, the British Museum.
Robert Storrie is a former assistant in the Depar

Table of Contents

Our clothing, our culture, our identity; Seams of time; Quiet and reserved splendour; Caribou and seal hair; Arctic clothing from Greenland; The poor man's raincoat; Yup'ik grass clothing, past and present; Birds and Eskimos; Eskimo sewing techniques; Caribou skin preparation in Igloolik; Amautiit; Women's skin coats from west Greenland; The Roald Amundsen Collection; Clothing of Norse medieval Greenlanders; Greenlandic national costume; Kayak clothing in Greenlandic kayak clubs; Caribou, reindeer and rickrack; Hairnets and fishnets; Clothing in Inuit art; Skin appliqué and stencil prints; Inupiaq parkas as wearable art.

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