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Accession no.: N: 178b
Title: Garment, collar
Description: Garment, collar, fabric. Inughuit. Qaanaaq (Thule), Kalaallit Nunaata Avannaarsua (North Greenland), 1937-1938.
Object type: Garment, collar
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Inughuit
Former cultural affiliation: Polar Eskimo
Current place name: Kalaallit Nunaata Avannaarsua > Qaanaaq
Former place name: North Greenland > Thule
Gender: female
Keyword(s): Collars
Field collection:
Person: hamilton
Organisation: bae
Place: Kalaallit Nunaata Avannaarsua (North Greenland) > Qaanaaq (Thule)
Date: 1937
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Garment, collar: Woman's, sleeveless, extends to mid-chest. Made from white cotton fabric with upstanding collar. Front and back are made from one main piece, folded at the shoulders and open at the centre front and sides. An additional piece of same lines the upper back and extends over the shoulders to the front. Machine stitched around the straight bottom edge, straight sides, and both sides of front opening with white cotton thread. Collar is lined with white cotton fabric and overlaid with rectangular panel (38 mm wide) of coarsely woven white fabric decorated with geometric design of 10 x repeated diamonds in light brown, dark brown, maroon and blue thread. Structural sewing is by machine using white cotton thread.
Related records:
  • Parka 177 (from register entry)
  • Garment, collar 178 a
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 376mm; height: ?mm; length: 347mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm
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