Women’s sealskin trousers

Museum number:
2-29122
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1954N
Description:
Trousers, sealskin, hair-out, very short, women’s. No drawstring, simple double tube pattern. Extensive apliqued decorative panels on front of each leg. Cuffs of depilated, alder dyed sealskin, waistband of hair-out sealskin. Sewn with sinew and cotton thread. Part of costume of sixteen year old girl. Length 42 cm. Part of costume of sixteen year old girl.
Donor:
Mrs. G. W. Cassell
Collection place:
Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland
Culture or time period:
West Greenland Inuit
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Trousers
Accession date:
August 5, 1954
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 26.5 centimeters, height 3.5 centimeters, and length 43 centimeters
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)
Loans:
S1968-1969 #50: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (November 26, 1968–November 26, 1968)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Women’s sealskin trousers, accession number 2-29122, described as Trousers, sealskin, hair-out, very short, women’s. No drawstring, simple double tube pattern. Extensive apliqued decorative panels on front of each leg. Cuffs of depilated, alder dyed sealskin, waistband of hair-out sealskin. Sewn with sinew and cotton thread. Part of costume of sixteen year old girl. Length 42 cm. Part of costume of sixteen year old girl.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Women’s sealskin trousers, accession number 2-29122, described as Trousers, sealskin, hair-out, very short, women’s. No drawstring, simple double tube pattern. Extensive apliqued decorative panels on front of each leg. Cuffs of depilated, alder dyed sealskin, waistband of hair-out sealskin. Sewn with sinew and cotton thread. Part of costume of sixteen year old girl. Length 42 cm. Part of costume of sixteen year old girl.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Women’s sealskin trousers, accession number 2-29122, described as Trousers, sealskin, hair-out, very short, women’s. No drawstring, simple double tube pattern. Extensive apliqued decorative panels on front of each leg. Cuffs of depilated, alder dyed sealskin, waistband of hair-out sealskin. Sewn with sinew and cotton thread. Part of costume of sixteen year old girl. Length 42 cm. Part of costume of sixteen year old girl.

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