84-40-1
Gutskin;Wood/Plant material
Width: 43 cm
Length: 46 cm
20th century
Alutiiq
Courtesy of the Kodiak History Museum
Eunice Neseth Collection
Child's Kamleika
46 cm long X 43 cm wide, body made in 5 sections trimmed in groups of red and black yarn w/ hand crotched loops of white thread, made of gut; hood attached, 4 sections trimmed w/ pink, green, yellow, red, and navy blue yarn, dark blue design sewed around face opening, maroon and gray tassle tie, also on sleeves.
2/12/2010 Description by Dana Senge:
This child's kamleika is fabricated from strips of intestine stitched in a horizontal pattern with sinew. The stitch lines are decorated with tufts of colored yarn (red, black and gray in the body; pink, yellow, red, and green in the hood). Additional decoration in the seams exists a crocheted or tatted loops of thick cotton thread or fine yarn) into the structure.