Square purse made of stitched strips of brown & cream seal fur with semi-circular flap & long black & white leather fastening strap. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 3/1/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Square purse made of stitched strips of brown & cream seal fur with semi-circular flap & long black & white leather fastening strap. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 3/1/2006]
Geographical reference: Greenland (Autonomous Country of Denmark)
Northern America > North America > Greenland (Autonomous Country of Denmark); East Greenland Ammassalik
Person: Field collector Lawrence Rickard Wager; Field collector Phyllis Wager; PRM source Phyllis Wager
Date / Period: Date made: 1936
Date collected: 1936
Acquisition information: Donated: 04/1996
Materials and processes: Material Seal Skin Animal, Material Skin, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Sinew, Process Stitched, Process Woven
Dimensions: Height: max 120 mm, Length: max 330 mm of strap, Width: max 140 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1996.27.6
Research and responses: The donor, Phyllis Wager, is the wife of the late Professor L.R.Wager F.R.S who was Professor of Geology at Oxford. She accompanied her husband who was leader of the British East Greenland Expedition 1935 - 36. The seven expedition members (two couples and three bachelors) spent fifteen months living in an uninhabited area about 200 miles north of Ammassalik, accompanied by two families of Greenlanders from Ammassalik. During the winter of 1936 the Greenlander families accompanying the expedition were asked to make articles that were no longer used but were illustrated in the book Greenland Vol II, The Past and Present Population of Greenland, 1928. This purse an an example of such work [JN]
Associated publications: See 'L. R. Wager, A Life 1904-1965', compiled by Jane Hargreaves, 1991. [MdeA 29/06/2011]

Search terms: Bag, Narcotic, Currency, Purse, Tobacco Accessory