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)
The items and people pictured are the Unangan (Aleut) of the Aleutian Chain in Alaska, not the Inuit. Great pictures.
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