عنوان

How Warm Were They? Thermal Properties of Rabbit Skin Robes and Blankets

Number

LA1jk440gg

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

How Warm Were They? Thermal Properties of Rabbit Skin Robes and Blankets

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Yoder, David; Blood, Jon; Mason, Reid

Text of Note

Rabbit skin robes and blankets have both considerable time depth and a wide geographic distribution throughout western North American. Primary and secondary accounts of rabbit skin robes and blankets suggest that these items are very warm. But compared to modern materials, how warm could rabbit skin robes actually have been? To determine a standardized intrinsic warmth value of rabbit skin robes we perform two tests. In the first we compare the relative temperature loss between a rabbit skin robe reproduction and four modern articles of clothing and bedding. In the second we establish the thermal conductivity (k-value)for the rabbit skin robe reproduction, which allows us to make a standardized comparison between the rabbit skin and other materials. We find that the rabbit skin robes outperform most modem materials in basic heat retention but that this may be offset by benefits in modem items such as weight and versatility.

Date of Publication

2005

Title

Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

Volume Number

25/1

Entry Element

Yoder, David; Blood, Jon; Mason, Reid

Electronic name

[Article]

275578

a

Y