Jacket

Item number 3668/6 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

White, felted wool jacket with wide folded collar and centre opening; secured shut with three loops and bobble buttons. Collar is embroidered with connecting flowers and vines; done in orange, dark blue, and pink. Being with a serpentine body embroidered on either side of jacket opening, along sleeves, and down back centre of jacket. Being has a triangular head and wide open mouth, with loops imitating teeth and a wavy tongue; curved lines extend from nose, and swirls along bottom edge of jaw. Creature has frilled neck, three legs along length of looped body, and tail with fanning lines. Head and tongue are pink, eye is orange, frills are green and orange, body is orange with dark blue and green highlights, legs and tail are green and pink; circles along body are pink, circles and swirls on head are dark blue. All edges of jacket are trimmed with light purple cotton and bordered with wavy pink lines; additional dark blue irregular-shaped lines border cuffs, jacket opening, and bottom edge.

Narrative

Collected by the donor's father, Douglas B. Ritcey, who was a radio operator stationed in Iqualuit, from sometime in the 1940s until 1952, after which he was in Goose Bay, Labrador.