Model of a tent [.1], inside which are fixed a wooden box, and a model of a seal. Inside the tent there is also a figure of a man [.2], which is not fixed. [DCF Court Team 30/1/2003]

Collection type: Object
Description: Model of a tent [.1], inside which are fixed a wooden box, and a model of a seal. Inside the tent there is also a figure of a man [.2], which is not fixed. [DCF Court Team 30/1/2003]
Long description: Model of a tent [.1], inside which are fixed a wooden box, and a model of a seal. Inside the tent there is also a figure of a man [.2], which is not fixed. [DCF Court Team 30/1/2003] The tent, is made of wooden poles of an oblong shape at bottom but the poles converging together and projecting at the top at one end above the covering which is of seal-skin. The front of the tent being kept open by two cross poles. The bottom is a flat board with a raised notched border of the same material.
Geographical reference: Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada; United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Greenland (Autonomous Country of Denmark)
Northern America > North America > Greenland (Autonomous Country of Denmark)
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1886
Date collected: ?On or before 1886
Acquisition information: Transferred: 11/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Seal Skin Animal, Material Wood Plant
Dimensions: Height: max 115 mm, Length: max 250 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.805.5.1 Accession number: 1886.1.805.5.2
Research and responses: It is not clear from the entry whether the comment 'Not apparently of Eskimo make' refers to all the models in this entry or just to 1886.1.805.8. The other number is for the sealskin cover in this entry [AP 28/1/99]

Search terms: Dwelling, Model, Figure, Box, House, Animal Figure

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