Photo: Nunavik-made parka featured in American fashion show

A parka and hat made by Winifred Nungak of Kangirsuk of Winifred Designs is included in the “Native Fashion Now” at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The exhibition, which runs from Nov. 21 to March 6, 2016, is the first large-scale traveling exhibition of contemporary Native American fashion, “celebrating indigenous designers from across the United States and Canada, from the 1950s to today,” the museum’s website says. Nungak’s work will then travel with the exhibition to the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PEM)