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Bag

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Accession no.: N: 158
Title: Bag
Description: Bag, sledge. Inughuit. Qaanaaq (Thule), Kalaallit Nunaata Avanaarsua (North Greenland), 1937.
Object type: Bag
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Inughuit
Former cultural affiliation: Polar Eskimo
Current place name: Kalaallit Nunaata Avannaarsua > Qaanaaq
Former place name: North Greenland > Thule
Keyword(s): Bags
Field collection:
Person: haig-thomas
Organisation: bae
Place: Kalaallit Nunaata Avannaarsua (North Greenland) > Qaanaaq (Thule)
Date: 1937
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Bag: For sledge, square with downturned flap. Made from a single piece of green canvas sewn with light brown (originally pink) cotton thread in running stitch. Loop of cream tape is sewn back at each side at upper edge. Semi-lunar bone toggle is attached to centre edge of flap by threading dehaired seal skin thong through circular hole in centre of toggle.

Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 540mm; height: ?mm; length: 478mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm