我在谈论你问你什么？当然，为什么要密封肠！博物馆成功地竞标了德国尤尔兹堡的部落艺术拍卖公司Zemanek-Münster的肠道皮大衣，这对我来说是一个巨大的难题。虽然，如果我说实话，我不得不担心海象，弓头和贝鲁加鲸以及驯鹿肠。必须回答确切的入口，其原籍国及其年龄的问题，然后我们才能将物体进口到美国。花了三个月的时间，在此过程中，其出处从北美大陆的一侧转移到另一侧。
这一切始于十月，当时我研究了11月9日的国王岛，Kotzebue Sound和Huntingdon岛的土著人口，并为博物馆的土著人民日提供了研究。我主要对阿拉斯加人如何使用Umiak，皮划艇和Baidarka*狩猎，这使我也学习了他们的工具和衣服。使用史密森尼人类学系等互联网站点（https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/anth/）和史密森尼北极研究中心的阿拉斯加本地收藏（https://alaska.si.edu/index.asp）教会了我很多关于我们收藏中的物体以及本地术语的知识。我学到的一个单词是“ Kamleika”，实际上是俄罗斯商人用北极人民戴的肠道扑克牌所用的一词。
我迅速确定了我们的收藏中的几张图像，这些图像显示了Aleut猎人戴着肠道皮式派克大衣和一些传统的狩猎工具，例如长矛，浮标和密封犬。有一天，我偶然发现了Zemanek-Münster拍卖Traditional men’s rain parka “kamleika” – Canada, Greenland, Inuit。” Finding items like this at auction is rare and they usually aren’t in a price range we can afford. With an estimate of €3,000 to €8,000 this one was and experience has shown me that auctions at lesser known houses that occur late in the year sometimes gives institutions like ours a fighting chance at acquiring these rare sorts of items.
Our collection holds five Arctic boats but very few items documenting the people who used them–and for goodness sake we’re not a boat museum we’re a people museum, it says so right in our name. We needed this parka and I was determined to get it. I immediately forwarded the auction listing to our Vice President of Collections and Programs, Lyles Forbes. Thankfully Lyles and the rest of the Museum’s collections committee agreed that we should try and acquire the parka. I placed a max bid of €3,200 and crossed my fingers. Thankfully my hunch proved correct, no one bid against us and we acquired the parka for the minimum bid of €3,000.
购买后，我联系了弗吉尼亚州赫恩登的一家出色公司Masterpiece International，专门从事国际艺术品。My contact at Masterpiece, Museum Services rep Amanda Otto, immediately stated we might have to acquire specialized permits in order to ship the parka to the United States–something I must admit I hadn’t thought about since the auction listing indicated it had originated in the US (the provenance listed was “Taylor Dale, Santa Fé, New Mexico”). Then she blew my mind–she asked我为她提供肠道的属和物种，这些动物被用来创建大衣。craaaapppp !!!!!（我实际上使用了一个稍强的词，但我正在努力保持这个清洁的人）。我绝对不知道如何回答这个问题。
我立即开始研究通常用来建造肠道帕克斯派克的动物的类型，并且由于大衣乐队的宽度而能够排除鲸鱼和海象。那给我留下了六种类型的北极印章（竖琴，连帽，戒指，胡须，斑点和丝带）加上所有各种亚种。显然，创建派克大衣的地方以及何时何时会极大地影响其制造商，而肠道帕克斯则是由北部北极北部的每个狩猎者创造的。
我的研究和我的肠道（对不起，无法抗拒）告诉我，大衣很可能是用胡须海豹肠道建造的，但我必须确保 - 否则我会向联邦政府撒谎！那一刻，我做出了一个决定，最终完全改变了对象的历史 - 我决定尝试追踪拍卖清单中确定的前所有者。多亏了互联网的奇迹，我能够找到他并发送一封电子邮件解释我的困境。事实证明，前所有者泰勒·戴尔（Taylor A.
同时，我的研究使我在胡须，环和斑点密封之间进行摇摆不定，每种印章都在允许的情况下提出了自己的问题。我们不得不担心的两个许可证是引用和海洋哺乳动物许可证。引用，首字母缩写词国际贸易大会野生动物和动植物的濒危物种，与有关野生动物和植物国际贸易的规则有关。海洋哺乳动物许可证与Marine Mammal Protection Act和Endangered Species Act。任何包含海洋哺乳动物部分的产品都需要MMP，并且处理时间通常为四到六个月。值得庆幸的是，拍卖公司能够与德国政府联系，他们确定我们不需要引用许可证（假设是erignathus barbatus）。随着引用的排除，阿曼达（Amanda）开始与德国和纽约的艺术托运人和海关特工联系**。她让我上班汇编国家海洋渔业信息表并创建一个Attestation to Historical Significance海洋哺乳动物许可证都是必需的。
然后，一封电子邮件到达，一切都向南，Nope North -North -evertrelly North和West。泰勒·戴尔（Taylor A. Dale）部落艺术的档案显示，他们已经从一位退休的地质学家那里获得了大衣，他在1960年代购买了阿拉斯加的Pomp Parka Hope（不是Greenland！）。该公司于2009年8月将大衣卖给了纽约的一位经销商。这是我需要的突破。它不仅有助于缩小所用密封的类型，而且还将服装归因于特定的文化。
随着我的密封库缩小到三个，我联系了我们的保护部门，以查看可以在肠道上进行哪种测试，以确定密封的属和物种。保护者佩奇·施密特（Paige Schmidt）与阿拉斯加州立博物馆（Alaska State Museum）的Ellen Carrlee寻求帮助。Carlee是肠道皮肤的专家及其由本地文化使用的专家，他相信Packa是由胡须的海豹肠制成的。在被环和斑点的密封件被大量捕获时，主要是为了肉，油和皮毛。他们的肠道，狭窄和较弱，不会产生足够强的材料来制造帕克斯。最后，随着制造商缩小到胡须密封件，泰勒·戴尔（Taylor Dale）提供的出处信息，我们拥有获得许可证所需的一切。阿曼达（Amanda）协调许可和运输安排时，我们进行了研究，并与“第二”所有者（第一个是阿拉斯加人的不知名的人）进行了口述历史访谈，以更充分地发展派克大衣的历史。
The parka was acquired at Tikiġaq (pronounced Ti-ke-ruk in Iñupiaq) village at Point Hope, Alaska by noted geologist Gil Mull in June of 1964. The remote area is home to the Tikiġaġmiut (pronounced tick-ee-ah-my-oot) people. Point Hope, about two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle and 330 miles southwest of Utqiagvik, Alaska, sits on a spit of land that sticks far out into the Chukchi Sea. Despite being described as “one of the most uncomfortable places in the world” (climate-wise), the location is advantageous because it brings migrating bowhead and beluga whales very close to shore. The area is also visited seasonally by walruses and bearded, spotted and ringed seals. These mammals provide an important source of raw materials for food, fuel, clothing and other manufactured goods. As proof of what a great location Point Hope is for the sea-hunting Inupiat, Tikiġaq is the longest continuously occupied settlement in North America.
Mr. Mull indicated that only 200 or 300 people lived at Tikiġaq in 1964 and described the area as “miserable, cold, icy and often fog bound.” He purchased the parka (called kapitaq in Iñupiaq) and several baleen baskets at the village store but stated that the village was so remote (it can only be reached by sea or air, even today) and so few people visited the area that the items were not being sold as part of a tourist trade but within the village population itself. He did say the parka was an older, well used item when he acquired it. After studying the materials used to create the parka and knowing that a Tikiġaġmiut hunter typically needed three new parkas each year we believe it dates to 1950-1960.
这里的工作人员将继续研究的皮大衣d are currently working with scientist Daniel Kirby at Harvard and Ellen Carrlee to fully identify the materials used in its manufacture. With luck we’ll be able to undertake the conservation of the piece soon so it can be used in our future programming. I definitely see a Gallery Crawl Station in its future!
*带有两个或三个驾驶舱的皮划艇
**肯尼迪是指定的鱼类和野生动物港口
恭喜您所有的侦探工作。我从来没有想象过为收藏品购买一件物品有多复杂