Museum catalogue: Arctic Material Culture Collection

Items made from material: 'Seal skin'

There are 3 items which use this material.

	Harness Record: N: 1 Harness, dog. Labrador Inuit. Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada, before April, 1938.
	Goggles, snow Record: N: 169 Goggles, for snow, wood. Kitaamiut (West Greenlanders) type. Made by Paulus Lövström, Illorsuit, Ubekendt Ejland, Uummannap kommunea (Uummannaq District), Kalaallit Nunaata Kitaa (West Greenland), 1939. Made from a single piece of wood carved with convex surface on exterior, concave on interior. V-shaped depression is made to accommodate the nose. Rectangular slit (37 mm long) is made for each eye. Convex depressions for the eyes are blacked on interior. Dehaired seal skin thong is tied with twisted string around groove at each side of goggles. Ends of string loop are tied to opposite ends of seal skin for attachment of goggles to wearer.
	Belt; bag Record: N: 182 Belt, cartridge and bag. Tunumiit (East Greenlanders). Tasiilaq (Ammassalik), Kalaallit Nunaata Tunua (East Greenland), 1931. Belt is made from dark brown dehaired seal skin backed with blue and beige checked fabric. Edges are bound with cream dehaired seal skin. Each end is overlaid with rectangular panel of dehaired seal skin dyed red edged with cream dehaired seal skin secured to form 19 ridges