Description (Physical description)
Old metal label affixed to object reads: 'Arc. 10 B.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten paper label affixed to waistband reads: '1893-45 Fish Skin leggings. Eskimo Col. R.T. Caldwell M.A.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Black, Lydia (1982). Aleut Art. Anchorage, Alaska. p154-163.

Event Date 1982
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Displayed in case 9, CUMAA anthropology galleries, until on 9 July 1986.
Event Date 9/7/1986
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Hickman, Pat. (1987). Innerskins/Outerskins: Gut and Fishskins. San Francisco: San Francisco Craft and Folk Museum
Event Date 1987
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Maudslay Hall, MAA, from 1990 until an unknown date.
Event Date 1990
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Judy Hall, Curator of Eastern Woodlands and Arctic Ethnology, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada: 'Trousers, full-length. Made from multiple rectangular pieces of sea mammal intestine sewn with sinew in waterproof stitch. Waistband (6.5 cm wide) of same is folded in half to form a double layer sewn to straight upper edge. Bottom edge of each leg is turned to the interior for 0.2 cm secured with sinew in running stitch. Structural sewing is with sinew.'
Event Date 6/2004
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Judy Hall, Curator of Eastern Woodlands and Arctic Ethnology, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada identified this as 'Unangan (Aleut) type'
Event Date 3/2005
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Original catalogue card: 'The Arctic, Esquimaux Skin Upper Dress (A), and pairs of shoes (B) and Trousers (C) and Two Pairs of Shoes (D,E; F; G). Skin is probably seal intestine. It has been suggested this could be gut."
Event Date 3/2005
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2024.5966 | Repack
Event Date 27/6/2024
Author: Stephanie De Roemer

Description (Physical description)
A pair of trousers made of seal intestine. Constructed of many rectangular panels, stitched with sinew; with waistband folded in half to form a double layer sewn and with straight upper edge. Both trousers legs are hemmed at the bottom. Brittle surface of translucent, cream brown colour with small black marks on upper section.
Event Date 1/7/2024
Author: Clare McKenna

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.5974 | Freezing
Event Date 8/7/2024
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Cultural Group field previously read 'Eskimo' based on the accession register. 'Inuit' was added at an unknown time. Following advice from a visiting researcher in 2005 'Unangan (Aleut) type' was added. This field was updated again in 2024 to include the names used in Lincoln, A., Cooper, J., and Loovers, J. P. L. (2020) Arctic: Culture and Climate. London: Thames and Hudson and The British Museum, pp.10-11.
Event Date 15/8/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan