Context (Production / use)
This dress was made by Anna Berit Peltoperä. She has lived in Karasjok all her life and has been making dresses (for men and women) for 20 years. Anna Berit Peltoperä runs her dress making buisness from home making traditional costumes for local people, she was taught to sew by her mother. The only kind of costume she doesnt make is the Kautokeino one since it is too elaborate and takes too much time. Many of the costumes are very traditional, but Anna Berit Peltoperä. also makes dresses in different fabrics and does change the decoration to make dresses slightly different. The dress took a day to make. See paper archive for Sámi names for different parts of the dress. Notes made during fieldwork. S. Webb - 20/3/2003. 
Event Date 2003
Author: rachel hand

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Sharon Webb following Ph.D. fieldwork done in the area in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002. Interviews were made with the makers of the artefacts, these are lodged in the Museum’s paper archive with tapes of the interviews and a copy of the report on the collecting project. The interviews consist of detailed conversations as to how the artefacts were made and what they mean to the Sámi today.
All Sámi handicrafts are called duodji (this translates as ‘anything a Sámi person makes with their hands’). This is a traditional (in colours and style) woman’s dress from the Karasjok area - traditional meaning post war. Dresses are now being made in different materials (velvets etc) and in different colours and styles. This kind of dress is worn in the Karasjok area only, other areas have their own styles and colours. The costume as a whole consists of the following items: dress, belt, shoes, shoe bands scarf, hat and jewllery. Modern tights, underwear etc are also worn! People wear traditional costume on special occasions (formal events, to church, to weddings - the bride and groom also often wear versions of the traditional dress), it is not normally worn for everyday wear, although some people do and some may wear one or two items, for example, a traditional hat (see accession number COMPLETE) or shoes and shoe bands (see accession SHOES COMPLETE).
Event Date 8/5/2003
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Dress for a woman. Made of woollen cloth. The main body and skirt of the dress is made of blue fabric. The band (holbi in Sámi) at the bottom of the dress is made of a gathered bands of (starting from the bottom of the band) red and black cloth, then red cloth, then a thinner piece of yellow cloth. The cuff of the sleeve (Soadjágeah∏i) is made of red fabric, the collar (ohcaláππi) is is also decorated with red cloth, as are the shoulders. Three strips of red cloth extend down the back of the dress. The red decorative cloth has been sewn with yellow thread. The collar is fastened with a metal hook and eye. The skirt is full, the body has darts sewn in so that it is closer fitting.
Event Date 8/5/2003
Author: maa

Context (Display)
On display in 'Sápmi' (Case 71), Maudslay Hall, MAA, from 26/02/2010 onwards. The display was co-curated with staff from the Ajtee Museum in Jokkmokk.
Event Date 26/2/2010
Author: rachel hand

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2014.210 | Freezing
Event Date 4/6/2019
Author: Kirstie Williams