Sewing bag with U-shaped bottom, open top & a short skin strap. Brown & cream leather bands with thin strips of cream-coloured appliqué and 4 pairs of human figure cut-outs in brown skin. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 3/1/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Sewing bag with U-shaped bottom, open top & a short skin strap. Brown & cream leather bands with thin strips of cream-coloured appliqué and 4 pairs of human figure cut-outs in brown skin. [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 Sinew, Material Animal Skin, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Width: max 156 mm, Height: max 233 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1996.27.8
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 bag is an example of such work (see page 246). [JN]
Associated publications: See 'L. R. Wager, A Life 1904-1965', compiled by Jane Hargreaves, 1991. [MdeA 29/06/2011]

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