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Accession no.: N: 176
Title: Trousers
Description: Trousers, fox. Inughuit. Qaanaaq (Thule), Kalaallit Nunaata Avannaarsua (North Greenland), 1937-1938.
Object type: Trousers
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): Trousers
Field collection:
Person: hamilton
Organisation: bae
Place: Kalaallit Nunaata Avannaarsua (North Greenland) > Qaanaaq (Thule)
Date: 1937
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Trousers: Short. Made from multiple pieces of fox skin with the fur to the exterior. Back is of brown fur with white fur around the legs; front is of white fur with brown fur around the legs. Additional piece of brown fur is inserted at centre front and between the legs. Strip of white polar bear fur is sewn around leg opening. 155 mm wide fabric band, open on right side, is sewn to double-layered strip of dehaired cream seal skin around upper edge. Band is of brown fabric flecked with white lined with white fabric machine stitched with cotton thread. Structural sewing is with cotton thread.
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  • Width: 530mm; height: 410mm; length: ?mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm
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