Un-tanned fox skin, white. The skin was sold to Professor Graburn by the Inuit trapper Aisaki Quqiq Pulik Mugualuk for C $25 (he wanted more). It had been prepared (skinned, scraped dried and combed) by his second wife Qupanuak. The trapping and preparation is a normal winter activity. Such skins are normally sold at the Hudson Bay Company or Eskimo cooperative, but Aisaki (an old friend of Professor Graburn since 1959) thought he could get more money from Professor Graburn. It has been fumigated.
Donor:
Nelson H.H. Graburn
Collection place:
Salluit (Sugluk), Ungava Bay, Arctic Quebec
Culture or time period:
Takamiut Inuit
Collection date:
1970s
Materials:
Pelt (animal material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pelts (animal skins)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
March 14, 1988
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)