Context (Related Documents)
'see Index card 31.1162 [The entire outfit including boots except the soles of the boots are made from fjord seal skin - the soles of bearded sealskin - the sinews are from the two biggest varieties of seals. The white fur is of fox. The ornamental white leather bleached by continually freezing the thawing of fjord seal]. J. Hall, March 2005'
Event Date
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (References)
Petersen, Robert "East Greenland Before 1950", Handbook of North American Indians, 5 (Arctic), Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1984:639.

Thalbitzer, William "Ethnographical sketches from East Greenland", Meddelelser om Gronland, 1914, 39(7):584, Figures 310, 311 (boots)

Bahnson, Anne "Skin Clothing in Greenland". in Braving the Cold: Continuity and change in Arctic clothing. Leiden, 1997:60-88.

Buijs, Cunera "Developments in Clothing and Identity in Greenland". in Oostin, J.G. and Remie, C. eds. Continuity and change in Inuit and Saami societies Arctic Identities. Leiden, 1999:145-172.

Buijis, Cunera Furs and Fabrics: Transformations, Clothing and Identity in East Greenland. Leiden, 2004.

Holm, Gustav Ethnological sketch of the Angmagsalik Eskimo. Meddelelser om Gronland, 1914, 39(1)

Event Date
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Context (Field collection)
'Collected on the British Arctic Air Route Expedition to Greenland, 1930-31. See bibliography. J. Hall, March 2005'
Event Date 1930
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller

Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card for 1931.1164 A-D: 'Complete outfit of an unmarried girl. For make etc see Index Card [19]31.1162. The cord in front marked A is for tying round to keep the baby from slipping down the back - as girls carry babies as well as their mothers.'

Event Date 15/3/1993
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Judy Hall: 'Trousers, short, for woman. Back is 10.2 cm higher than curved front. Made from 8 pieces of sealskin with the fur to the exterior. A single piece forms each side of front and _ of back; four pieces are sewn to centre back; front is made from two pieces seamed vertically at the centre. Five narrow strips of white haired skin (fox?) alternate with five strips of dehaired dark brown sealskin to form bands around each leg (2.6 cm wide) and vertically down each side of front (2.5 cm wide). Band of furred sealskin is sewn around edge of leg. Paired fringe of dark brown dehaired sealskin is sewn to centre front of leg. Dehaired sealskin forms a casing (1.3 cm wide) around upper edge. Ends of dehaired sealskin thong emerge through two holes in casing at centre back. Structural sewing is with sinew.'

[Judy Hall, Curator of Eastern Woodlands and Arctic Ethnology, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.]
Event Date 3/2005
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Cultural Group field previously read 'Angmagsalik Eskimo' based on the catalogue card. 'Inuit; Tunumiit (East Kalaallit); Ammassalimmiut' were added at an unknown time. This field has now been updated to reflect 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 14/8/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
Girl's shorts, trousers or pants, made from seal skin. Waistband of dehaired sealskin with main section of sealskin with hair to the outside; two vertical stripes down the front trimmed with bands of white hair alternating with dehaired skin; hems trimmed with bands of white hair alternating with dehaired skin; paired tassels of black skin from legs; two ties of cream dehaired skin at back of waist.
Event Date 20/8/2024
Author: Katrina Dring

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6013 | Freezing
Event Date 2/9/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan