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Illustration of Pacific loons.
Drawing by John A. Crosby in G. W. Godfrey's The Birds of Canada, Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, Bulletin No. 203, Biological Series No. 73, 1965
Drawing by John A. Crosby in G. W. Godfrey's The Birds of Canada, Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, Bulletin No. 203, Biological Series No. 73, 1965
Illustration of harlequin ducks.
Drawing by John A. Crosby in G. W. Godfrey's The Birds of Canada, Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, Bulletin No. 203, Biological Series No. 73, 1965
Drawing by John A. Crosby in G. W. Godfrey's The Birds of Canada, Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, Bulletin No. 203, Biological Series No. 73, 1965
Illustration of common and king eiders.
Drawing by John A. Crosby in G. W. Godfrey's The Birds of Canada, Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, Bulletin No. 203, Biological Series No. 73, 1965
Drawing by John A. Crosby in G. W. Godfrey's The Birds of Canada, Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, Bulletin No. 203, Biological Series No. 73, 1965
Illustration of Steller's eider.
F. Bellrose's Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America, Harrisburg, 1942
F. Bellrose's Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America, Harrisburg, 1942
Illustration of an Oldsquaw duck.
Drawing by John A. Crosby in G. W. Godfrey's The Birds of Canada, Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, Bulletin No. 203, Biological Series No. 73, 1965
Drawing by John A. Crosby in G. W. Godfrey's The Birds of Canada, Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, Bulletin No. 203, Biological Series No. 73, 1965
“When I don't have any caribou skins I use birds to make warm parkas for my husband.”
Gertrude Therchik, Toksook Bay, 1989.
Gertrude Therchik with her son modelling the bird skin parka she made for her husband Albert.
Rick Riewe
Gertrude Therchik, Toksook Bay, 1989.
Gertrude Therchik with her son modelling the bird skin parka she made for her husband Albert.
Rick Riewe
Alaskan Bio-Diversity:
Land, Sea and Air
Bird
On the offshore islands in the Bering Sea, caribou were often unavailable so women used bird skins as a substitute for caribou skin winter clothing. Bird skin clothing is warmer than caribou skins; however, it is less durable. Bird beaks, feathers and feet portray the crossing of boundaries, including human and supernatural, land and sea, and life and death. Birds are killed with bolas to avoid destroying the skin.
