Museum catalogue: Arctic Material Culture Collection

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• Fabric > cotton
• Skin > seal
• Fabric > wool
• Fabric > velvet
• Fibre
• Thread > cotton
• Dye or paint

Woman. Made of beige cotton fabric; stuffing unknown. Eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth are applied with blue thread. Hair of cream fibre? is wound into a knot at the top of the head and secured with a wrapping of cream and blue thread. She is wearing a waist-length shirt with upstanding collar of printed red, green and cream floral fabric. Band (12 mm wide) of blue fabric overlays straight bottom edge. Calf-length trousers are made from dark blue coarsely woven wool fabric over a grey fabric lining. Trousers are decorated with vertical strip of red dehaired seal skin overlaid with strip of white and light blue dehaired seal skin. Knee-high boots are each made from a single piece of pink dehaired seal skin seamed vertically down centre front and under foot. Band of black velvet around straight upper edge of left boot; missing from right boot. Structural sewing is with white cotton thread.

• 244 a-g dolls

• Width: 115mm, length: 217mm, height at underarm (mounting): 145mm