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Accession no.: N: 244d
Title: Doll
Description: Doll, woman. Kitaamiut (West Greenlanders). Uummannaq, Kalaallit Nunaata Kitaa (West Greenland), 1928-1929 ?
Object type: Doll
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Kilamiut
Former cultural affiliation: West Greenlanders
Current place name: Kalaallit Nunaata Kitaa > Uummannaq
Former place name: West Greenland > Umanak
Keyword(s): Dolls
Field collection:
Person: hutchison
Place: Kalaallit Nunaata Kitaa (West Greenland) > Uummannaq
Date: 1928
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Doll: Woman. Body is made from cream cotton fabric; stuffing unknown. Facial features (eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth) and hair are outlined in black ink. She is wearing a cream fabric headscarf trimmed with strip of red fabric around face. She is dressed in a hip-length blue fabric shirt overlaid around the straight bottom edge with a 20 mm wide band of checked light blue, dark blue and white fabric. Thighs are outlined in black/dark blue and pink ink (to represent trousers). Knee-high boots are made from red cotton fabric seamed vertically down centre front and under foot. Structural sewing is with white, red, blue and black cotton thread.

Related records:
  • 244 a-g dolls
Dimensions: Image:
  • arms outstretched) Width: 206mm
  • Height: ?mm; length: 207mm; diameter: ?mm; height at underarm (mounting): 122mm; depth: ?mm
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