Context (Analysis)
The artefact was 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’). Notes made during fieldwork.
Event Date 20/3/2003
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Spectacle case made by Irina Nutti. Made from reindeer leather (sisti) and decorated with woollen cloth and pewter thread. The case is rounded at both ends, one end open (for insertion of spectacles) this end can be closed with vecro strips (sewn on the inside). One side and the bottom have a seams, along which has been sewn green woollen cloth. A diamond shape has been cut from the front of the case, in this has been sewn blue woollen cloth, this has been outlined with a thin strip of green woollen cloth. In the centre of the blue cloth has been sewn pewter thread in a much embellished cross shape (which has arms of equal length).
Event Date 8/5/2003
Author: maa

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1099 | Repack
Event Date 10/4/2015
Author: cao37

Description (Physical description)
Brown leather rectangular case tapered at corners to rounded ends, green wool insert at 1 side and base; 1 end opens and is fastened by velcro strip; 1 face has diamond cut out with blue felt insert surrounded by green felt border and decorated with tiny silver bead embroidery.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa