This seal skin parka has a wolf ruff and a geometric banded design that appears to be made of seal skin. It was owned and donated by Dorothy Claypool.
Dorothy Trego, otherwise known as "Treg," came to Alaska in 1939 as a registered nurse. She went to work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the hospital at Mountain Village, located on the Lower Yukon River.
The weather at Mountain Village was extremely cold, so Treg hired the Nome Skin Sewers to make a custom parka for her for $58.50. Another unnamed nurse also had a parka made by the Nome Skin Sewers. These two women were the last civilians t...
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