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Coat (parka). Shirt is made of many different sections of hide, has inset sleeves, hood and dips in middle front and back. These dips are presumably tails of hides used; decorative motif (geometric) is formed by sewing different-coloured strips together in parallel rows (chocolate brown, cream and yellow-brown); decorative motif is found around neck, sleeve, hood and lower edges as well as down sleeve, hood and upper part of shirt front; sewn together with sinew.
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