For protection against the wet - waterproof seal gut parkas made by the Inuit. Sometimes grass was sewn into the seams - it swelled when it got wet and made the seams waterproof. This one is in the Glenbow Museum, Calgary -
and these (photographed in 1910) both seem to be decorated with feathers -
This is what they start with (read about the process here)
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The items and people pictured are the Unangan (Aleut) of the Aleutian Chain in Alaska, not the Inuit. Great pictures.
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