Museum catalogue: Arctic Material Culture Collection
Sheath
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Accession no.: | N: 1236 | ||||||||||||||
Title: | Sheath | ||||||||||||||
Description: | Sheath, knife. Tunumiit (East Greenlanders). Tasiilaq area (Ammassalik area), Kalaallit Nunaata Tunua (East Greenland), 1930-1931. | ||||||||||||||
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Number of items: | 1 | ||||||||||||||
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Elongated with straight upper edge and curved lower edge. Made from two main pieces of dehaired seal skin. A single piece of cream dehaired seal skin forms the back. A corresponding piece of same dyed red forms the front. Front is decorated with skin mosaic in geometric pattern of a central diamond |
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