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| Accession no.: |
N: 197 |
| Title: |
Trousers |
| Description: |
Trousers, boy's, seal skin. Tunumiit (East Greenlanders). Tasiilaq (Ammassalik), Kalaallit Nunaata Tunua (East Greenland), 1931. |
| Classified name: |
| Current cultural affiliation |
Tunumiit
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| Former cultural affiliation |
East Greenlanders
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| Cultural subgroup |
ammassalimmiut
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| Current place name |
Kalaallit Nunaata Tunu > Tasiilaq
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| Former place name |
East Greenland > Ammassalik (Angmassalik)
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| Gender |
male
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| Getty AAT |
Trousers
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| Field collection: |
| Person |
Riley, Quintin Theodore Petroc Molesworth > |
| Organisation |
British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31 > |
| Place |
Kalaallit Nunaata Tunu (East Greenland) > Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) |
| Date |
1931 |
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| Number of items: |
1 |
| Full description: |
Boy's, outer. Made from four pieces of seal skin with the hair to the exterior. Each side of front and back are made from one piece seamed vertically down centre front and back and along each side. Back is 64 mm longer than front. Dark brown dehaired seal skin casing 20 mm wide is attached around upper edge. Thong of same is threaded through casing emerging through two holes at centre back. Dark brown dehaired seal skin thong is threaded through casing of same around straight bottom edge of each leg. Structural sewing is with sinew.
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| Dimensions: |
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Width: 385mm (maximum across legs), length: 427mm (excluding thongs)
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