April 19th, 2011
Clothing Cook’s World
2009 - 2010
These costumes were part of a collaborative project undertaken by CCAD for the Captain Cook Memorial Museum of Stuart’s Park, Marton.
Working from artist’s representations from the voyages of Captain Cook, and from research into the time and place, we were asked to create costumes for the native people of the pacific rim whom Cook and his crew met whilst travelling - the Chukchi and Kamchatdale tribes.
My part of the collaboration was to produce a coat based on representations of the Kamchatdale menswear, using real leather and reindeer fur was to create the most historically accurate garments possible.
