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Accession no.: N: 798
Title: Trousers
Description: Trousers, man's, caribou skin. Iglulingmiut (Iglulik Inuit). Iglulik, Nunavut, Canada, 1939.
Object type: Trousers
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Iglulingmiut
Former cultural affiliation: Iglulik Eskimo
Current place name: Canada > Nunavut > Iglulik
Former place name: Canada > Northwest Territories > Igloolik
Gender: male
Keyword(s): Trousers
Field collection:
Person: rowley
Place: Canada > Nunavut > Iglulik
Date: 1939
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Trousers: Man's, inner. Calf-length made from caribou skin with the dark brown hair to the interior. Back is longer than front. Upper edge is turned to the exterior to form a casing. Braided sinew tie is threaded through casing emerging through two holes at centre back. Horizontal band of white caribou belly hair is sewn around bottom of each leg to form a cuff. Structural sewing is with sinew. Holes in skin repaired with patches of caribou skin.

Related records:
  • 795 - 799
Dimensions: Image:
  • bottom of legs) Width: 830mm
  • Height: ?mm; length: 785mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm
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