doll (pastimes: toys)

Female Inuit doll dressed in a hooded sealskin coat, trousers, and leather boots. She is holding a child.

Probably made as trade item. This is one of two Inuit dolls which were probably made as trade items. They illustrate sealskin clothes and boots. The woman's jacket has extra width at the back, between the shoulders, to carry the baby inside the jacket.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
27.7.55/38.2
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 420 mm x 130 mm x 125 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
skin
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
World Gallery > Americas > Arctic - clothing, shamanism and sharing food
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