We'll be posting a video tour of the exhibition in about 2 weeks, so keep your eyes out for that - or hit the notification bell if you're concerned the anticipation will become too much for you. x
@The British Museum I have received an email about a Curator's Tour of the Arctic Exhibition on 18th Dec. inviting me to click on a link to receive a reminder - but it does not seem to work...
The beaver fur around the bottom also has to do with water shedding for hiking through the snow, so when it melts it won't soak in, if it sticks at all.
The skill of the hunter, The application of skill of the seamstress, the technology developed, and the respect shown to the animals that give life to provide life to others. The story of the peice is endless.
It's amazing how intertwined their clothes and knowledge of animal furs are. It must take generations of hunting, as well as trial and error to figure out a preferable role for each type of fur within the garment.
We were mesmerised by it as we started filming, and that feeling just grew as Amber revealed more and more of the stitching. It's really something isn't it?
While I agree with the heart of this sentiment, mass production in and of itself isn't a bad thing *if done correctly and intelligently.* If there's proper quality control and waste management, getting a good product out in large numbers at a cheap price without harming the environment can make a huge difference in people's lives. Unfortunately, many companies value profit over manufacturing the proper way.
@@adamwojcik9331 I only see waste, cheap products that break and get tossed in the trash for more cheap products. Plastic garbage that can’t be repaired. Plastic packaging. On and on.
@@adamwojcik9331 And it will always be this way, because whoever exploits waste and workforces will always make the most product, and the most profit. An appreciation of quality is the only way to curb this I think, and the best way to have the quality of things appeciated by the consumers is if it's made within their communities.
Since we don't have this parka making tradition in The US South, I can only marvel at the artistry. Our traditional quilts are on the spectrum, but do not use the various furs for their natural properties. I love seeing the artistry and utility of my fellow humans😍💙Amber, thank you for your work.🌞
I really hope the length of the exhibition gets extended due to the national lockdown because I'd absolutely love to be able to learn more about the Arctic & how the indigenous peoples are being affected by climate change.
What a beautiful object ... masterfully crafted, thoughtfully constructed, carefully preserved and presented. I didn't expect to get so drawn-in to this video ... great job!
Oh my god, that is so beautiful. I'm sure that would costs a couple of thousand dollars to have constructed today, especially custom for a person. I truly admire how they used only what they needed from the various animals. That prevented one species from being pushed into extinction. Only in our time, have so many species faced their demise.
The patterns along the bottom, the small triangles and lines, are normally family patterns. It served as an identifying mark as to who you were and where you were from, like a proto-passport, when encountering others when on hunting, fishing, or trading expeditions. These markings also appeared on drinking bowls, bows, and other tools.
My best friend is an Inuit from Frobisher Bay. She is also an Inuktitut translator for a large organization. She will certainly appreciate this when I send it to her.
Beautiful, functional and well crafted. My favorite things. Beauty is last on the list of import, but a well crafted thing is so often beautiful so they go together.
Thanks Amber. Your pride in your Arctic friends comes over well. The parka is incredibly beautiful and assembled with loving care. Similarly wonderful craftsmanship is found in Greenland Inuit Burials. Can I refer you to National Geographic for a feature on costume found by chance many years ago. I hope these communities survive and prosper for many generations to come.
Every time I visited The British Museum (when I lived in London) I would walk around a large glass case containing a 'family' of parkas and be awed by them, and feel more than a little covetous. Amazing work and beautiful garments.
The skill shown in sewing all the different furs together makes me think that paleolithic people may not have dressed as shabbily as we have portrayed them.
They have found graves in Siberia with thousands of beads in patterns. There have been attempts at reconstruction. Sally Pointer has a TH-cam video with some of the information. There are needles found at many sites. I personally detest the flappy skin images. I will bet Neanderthals had carefully sewn garments or they wouldn't have survived the ice age winters
I seem to remember Amber saying it was about 140 hours of a seamstress' time, but I'd need to check that with her. Also that doesn't account for all the hunting and treating of the hides in the first place. Need(le)less to say, it's an incredible amount of labour that goes into just one of these.
usually, when I walk through museums, I disregard everything made after the 1950s and I hardly ever look at clothing. but I just became fascinated by this parka and am very intrigued to find out more. so: well done :) I can really feel the curators passion for the parka and its history and it catches on :)
Wait til you see the Curator's Corner Christmas special this year. Mid-2000s object, and well worth your time if you're into a certain sci-fi infused medical professional
Clothing is actually a really fascinating part of history (I admit I am biased) because if you look closer into it, it is actually so often connected to the larger scale of history, even the prevailing landscape of thought of the time etc. (like the Grecian influences on fashion at the end of the 18th and beginning of 19th century), in everyday (or special occasion) objects. There are foreign influences on fashion connected to the political developments of the time (such as fabrics obtained by trade, or alternately attempts to promote locally produced fabrics), inventions playing into the ways clothes were constructed (such as very different construction techniques with handsewing vs machine sewing, or invention of new materials), and all sorts of things like that.
Really nice presentation. Does make me a bit sad for the animals but, considering the thorough use and how these weren't just made for the wealthy, I can see the difference.
In more ways than one it's like a space suit or a deep diver's suit - developed with a lot of thought to seal-in a portion of environment within against the ravages of the outside.
Surviving in Alaska without the natural adaptability, purely based on ingenuity and sheer tenacity is brilliant proof of why humans are at the top of the food chain. That too humans have been able to do this many centuries before without the modern technology available at that time, just proves that why our species have been such a successful one.
Back towards the end of the last century the British Museum's Department of Ethnography collection was exhibited at 6 Burlington Gardens (behind the Royal Academy) I remember some superb exhibitions like 'Nomad and City' and 'Living Arctic' - I'd love to dream that the Department of Ethnography collection is about to have a renaissance. It's an astonishing collection that doesn't get the attention or exhibition space it deserves.
A little disappointed that the connection to nature and the animals via the furs was not discussed, however this was a wonderful explanation of the materials and their purposes of that gorgeous parka!!
The Arctic provides the closest conditions our biosphere offers to Martian conditions, and the people of the Arctic had the skills to craft the protective gear to inhabit such a hostile zone, and the fine eye for a pleasing design as well.
I love how she starts by really making clear they for real bought it and didn't rob this piece in the 18th century like the other half of their collection 😂
Regarding what? The native woman who made this for herself, the people who keep the craft alive or what? The woman that made this parka was born, lived and died as a Native American woman. She ate the animals they trapped and she honored those animals by not letting their death or their bodies go to waste. The meat fed her and her people, the pelts let her and her people alive in cold that kills. It’s beautiful.
We'll be posting a video tour of the exhibition in about 2 weeks, so keep your eyes out for that - or hit the notification bell if you're concerned the anticipation will become too much for you. x
Also first.
Yes. Exhibition is open to the public, you can find tickets and more information here: bit.ly/39RkUx4
They put so much effort in to the parkas and at the very end of the video the volume drops away, sorry but previewing would have helped.
@The British Museum I have received an email about a Curator's Tour of the Arctic Exhibition on 18th Dec. inviting me to click on a link to receive a reminder - but it does not seem to work...
Don't say "... right?"!
The beaver fur around the bottom also has to do with water shedding for hiking through the snow, so when it melts it won't soak in, if it sticks at all.
Thanks!
Thank you for including the information about the specific artist that made the clothing, as well as the ones that gave you information about them!
The skill of the hunter, The application of skill of the seamstress, the technology developed, and the respect shown to the animals that give life to provide life to others. The story of the peice is endless.
It's amazing how intertwined their clothes and knowledge of animal furs are. It must take generations of hunting, as well as trial and error to figure out a preferable role for each type of fur within the garment.
Absolutely beautiful with impeccable craftsmanship! Thank you for showing it.
We were mesmerised by it as we started filming, and that feeling just grew as Amber revealed more and more of the stitching. It's really something isn't it?
This is a wonderful TH-cam channel, this is what the World wide web is supposed to be about, knowledge and education.
i love curators corner so much...so relaxing to just learn about art
Imagine everything we owned was created with this much care and craftsmanship... just amazing. Makes you want to get rid of anything mass produced
we should all strive to occupy such a world
While I agree with the heart of this sentiment, mass production in and of itself isn't a bad thing *if done correctly and intelligently.* If there's proper quality control and waste management, getting a good product out in large numbers at a cheap price without harming the environment can make a huge difference in people's lives. Unfortunately, many companies value profit over manufacturing the proper way.
@@adamwojcik9331 I only see waste, cheap products that break and get tossed in the trash for more cheap products. Plastic garbage that can’t be repaired. Plastic packaging. On and on.
@@adamwojcik9331 And it will always be this way, because whoever exploits waste and workforces will always make the most product, and the most profit. An appreciation of quality is the only way to curb this I think, and the best way to have the quality of things appeciated by the consumers is if it's made within their communities.
th-cam.com/video/9QinSELBt3k/w-d-xo.html
What an utterly stunning and functional piece of gear! I hope the tradition is kept alive by the Arctic peoples of Alaska for many years to come!
I am from Canada, and I am glad to see this beautiful artifact of a vital and living culture displayed here.
Since we don't have this parka making tradition in The US South, I can only marvel at the artistry. Our traditional quilts are on the spectrum, but do not use the various furs for their natural properties. I love seeing the artistry and utility of my fellow humans😍💙Amber, thank you for your work.🌞
I really hope the length of the exhibition gets extended due to the national lockdown because I'd absolutely love to be able to learn more about the Arctic & how the indigenous peoples are being affected by climate change.
The skill, the time and the patience it took to make that. Truly amazing. Good presentation.
"sunshine ruff"! what an amazing name for a winter garment
What a beautiful object ... masterfully crafted, thoughtfully constructed, carefully preserved and presented. I didn't expect to get so drawn-in to this video ... great job!
Oh my god, that is so beautiful. I'm sure that would costs a couple of thousand dollars to have constructed today, especially custom for a person. I truly admire how they used only what they needed from the various animals. That prevented one species from being pushed into extinction. Only in our time, have so many species faced their demise.
The patterns along the bottom, the small triangles and lines, are normally family patterns. It served as an identifying mark as to who you were and where you were from, like a proto-passport, when encountering others when on hunting, fishing, or trading expeditions. These markings also appeared on drinking bowls, bows, and other tools.
How amazing. The skill and sensible construction of this practical garment.
My best friend is an Inuit from Frobisher Bay.
She is also an Inuktitut translator for a large organization.
She will certainly appreciate this when I send it to her.
Beautiful, functional and well crafted. My favorite things. Beauty is last on the list of import, but a well crafted thing is so often beautiful so they go together.
Thanks Amber. Your pride in your Arctic friends comes over well. The parka is incredibly beautiful and assembled with loving care. Similarly wonderful craftsmanship is found in Greenland Inuit Burials. Can I refer you to National Geographic for a feature on costume found by chance many years ago. I hope these communities survive and prosper for many generations to come.
Form and function. Practical and beautiful indeed.
From apes digging holes with sticks to fully fledged hominem with dress fur coat ..... evolution is truly a marvel like no other
I think this beautiful parka is a perfect example of the combination of form and function
i envy that stiching
It’s insane, right? Perfect, tiny stitches in leather, and every material that went into it was gathered by you. Incredible craftsmanship.
I can only imagine the time alone would b daunting, but the skill! Magnificent!! Thanks for sharing! ❤️
And the hunters didn't hunt for sport but for food. None of the animal/fish they hunted was wasted.
This is what the internet was made for (or at least should be).
This parka is hypnotizingly beautiful.
Humbling.. and what a beautiful culture/ cultures..., we have so much to learn from our different peoples and communities 🙏
That was even more interesting than I thought it was going to be.
Every time I visited The British Museum (when I lived in London) I would walk around a large glass case containing a 'family' of parkas and be awed by them, and feel more than a little covetous. Amazing work and beautiful garments.
This quote by William Morris sums it all up "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to beautiful."
Amazing these can be seen on cave paintings.
Wonderful. Thank you. I didn't know the details about the hood and ruff. PEACE
The skill shown in sewing all the different furs together makes me think that paleolithic people may not have dressed as shabbily as we have portrayed them.
They have found graves in Siberia with thousands of beads in patterns. There have been attempts at reconstruction. Sally Pointer has a TH-cam video with some of the information. There are needles found at many sites. I personally detest the flappy skin images. I will bet Neanderthals had carefully sewn garments or they wouldn't have survived the ice age winters
Absolutely exquisite parka.
wow, how many hours would that take to make? Fantastic craftmanship!
I seem to remember Amber saying it was about 140 hours of a seamstress' time, but I'd need to check that with her. Also that doesn't account for all the hunting and treating of the hides in the first place. Need(le)less to say, it's an incredible amount of labour that goes into just one of these.
@@britishmuseum absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing this amazing work of art 🖤
Really love the curators corner
I have been to the museum hundreds of times and never once seen a curator
Thanks for the upload
usually, when I walk through museums, I disregard everything made after the 1950s and I hardly ever look at clothing. but I just became fascinated by this parka and am very intrigued to find out more. so: well done :) I can really feel the curators passion for the parka and its history and it catches on :)
Wait til you see the Curator's Corner Christmas special this year. Mid-2000s object, and well worth your time if you're into a certain sci-fi infused medical professional
Clothing is actually a really fascinating part of history (I admit I am biased) because if you look closer into it, it is actually so often connected to the larger scale of history, even the prevailing landscape of thought of the time etc. (like the Grecian influences on fashion at the end of the 18th and beginning of 19th century), in everyday (or special occasion) objects. There are foreign influences on fashion connected to the political developments of the time (such as fabrics obtained by trade, or alternately attempts to promote locally produced fabrics), inventions playing into the ways clothes were constructed (such as very different construction techniques with handsewing vs machine sewing, or invention of new materials), and all sorts of things like that.
Its a windy - 30 Celsius here in Edmonton today... enjoying watching it instead of wearing it.
Really nice presentation. Does make me a bit sad for the animals but, considering the thorough use and how these weren't just made for the wealthy, I can see the difference.
It is such a well thought out practical garment but is also such a beautiful decorative piece.
Can’t wait to see what else you display for us. Thanks.
Well done. What a pleasure and so very well presented.
Ty for sharing this knowledge....wow!
It’s just beautiful...and the time it took to make this parka!
Just stunning. I would just love to wear one of these
I'm curious about the red highlights. What are they made of? In terms of design they are gorgeous.
wool yarn
Nowadays they are made from anilin dyed wool. Historically, they were mage from bird feathers like cardinals.
In more ways than one it's like a space suit or a deep diver's suit - developed with a lot of thought to seal-in a portion of environment within against the ravages of the outside.
Indeed incredible 👍
This would be great to use in a game of Snorkel Parka Music Practice Room
Amazing craftsmanship and design.
Beautiful! Practical! Work of art!
Good to see this on YT hope to see more.
Surviving in Alaska without the natural adaptability, purely based on ingenuity and sheer tenacity is brilliant proof of why humans are at the top of the food chain. That too humans have been able to do this many centuries before without the modern technology available at that time, just proves that why our species have been such a successful one.
Yeah!
And then we came along and destroyed their culture and environment out of arrogance, ignorance and greed.
Go us, we're number 1!!! ☝️
Back towards the end of the last century the British Museum's Department of Ethnography collection was exhibited at 6 Burlington Gardens (behind the Royal Academy) I remember some superb exhibitions like 'Nomad and City' and 'Living Arctic' - I'd love to dream that the Department of Ethnography collection is about to have a renaissance. It's an astonishing collection that doesn't get the attention or exhibition space it deserves.
Very interesting video!
Beautiful! Thank you!
I want that parka. It looks soft and comfy and warm.
lovely presentation, totally enjoyed it
They wore those coats to survive, some people wear them to be gangsta. I’d rock that coat.
A little disappointed that the connection to nature and the animals via the furs was not discussed, however this was a wonderful explanation of the materials and their purposes of that gorgeous parka!!
Wonderful caretaking of wonderful knowledge.
Amazing 🤩
That's a piece of art.
This is absolutly amazing!
Its so beautiful i really am crying
Incredible!
dam native alaskans got drip
Hi!
_ Again, a new week has begun. I hope you have a healthy/pleased day this week. ^O^
Thank you. That is really a wonderful piece and I learned a lot.
Just beautiful.
Ingenious
Really interesting. Thank you
That was great!
Thank you
The Arctic provides the closest conditions our biosphere offers to Martian conditions, and the people of the Arctic had the skills to craft the protective gear to inhabit such a hostile zone, and the fine eye for a pleasing design as well.
Arctic is still 100 times more similar to any location on Earth than to Mars
I needed one of these in Rexburg, ID.
if its minus 40 there is only one thing to keep warm and its not found outside what a awesome Parka they know how to stay warm in the circle
I love it!
These programs are fascinating but the auto-generated* captions provide an extra layer of entertainment!
*At least, I hope they’re auto-generated
Thank you!
Amazing
File under "Things people are capable of when they aren't slaves/addicted to electronic technology."
I love how she starts by really making clear they for real bought it and didn't rob this piece in the 18th century like the other half of their collection 😂
I'm not for wearing fur but when you live where Eskimos live how can you not. And they're so beautiful
Peta's triggering is beyond the planes of reality
Nice bit of brain food thanks
It's refreshinh to learn that there is something on exposition in the BM that wasn't actually robbed away from its countries of origin.
liam gallagher love parka.
SO FANCY!
Pipe down Dawnstar. We know about your foot cream
@@britishmuseum You'll be hearing my legal team shortly
3:45 pretty much sure it's seal fur. Seal kittens that is.
never been to the artic, is it near the arctic?
I guess you've never used dictionary.com either. You learn a lot about the different, correct ways of pronouncing words there.
Wolverine fur properties is quite a rabbit hole.
It’s much more high tech than any material today.
As James Acaster says: we would return it but we’re not done looking at it.
0:36 BOUGHT
Anoraq qaqortok!
Amazing parka. A vegan's worst nightmare. 🤣
Where's all the activists at?
.......oh....of course....this is an educational channel.................................crickets.
Regarding what? The native woman who made this for herself, the people who keep the craft alive or what? The woman that made this parka was born, lived and died as a Native American woman. She ate the animals they trapped and she honored those animals by not letting their death or their bodies go to waste. The meat fed her and her people, the pelts let her and her people alive in cold that kills. It’s beautiful.
This totally gives me a design boner, absolutely beautiful!