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BootsA2.510 a-b

Pair of men’s boots made of caribou skin with the fur on. The boots reach just below the knee and have a casing at the top through which a plaited cord of sinew is strung, which can be tied at the back. The soles have the fur to the outside while the upper part of the feet has the fur to the inside. The leg portions are made of caribou leg skins with the fur to the outside.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
caribou skin and caribou sinew
Made in
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Outer ParkaA2.507

Men’s outer coat, or parka, of caribou fur. The coat is waist length, has a close fitting pointed hood and a long rectangular backtail. The hood and the hem are trimmed with a band of white caribou fur. There is a white band of fur on the upper part of the sleeves. Paired white fur fringes are attached below the white bands on the sleeves and around the backtail. A small piece of white fur is inserted on the back between the shoulders. A tape of depilated skin is sewn on the inside along the tail.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
caribou skin and caribou sinew
Made in
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Inner LeggingsA2.505 a-b

Pair of women’s inner leggings (part a-b) of caribou skin with the fur on the inside. The leggings have a close fit for the foot and ankle and expand like a funnel reaching above the knee at the back of the leg and tapering up on the front to form a loop that can be attached to the trousers belt. A narrow tape of depilated skin is sewn along the edge on the skin side.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
caribou skin and caribou sinew
Made in
Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fire KitNa1711 a-d

Fire-making kit includes a dark-brown coloured seal skin pouch (part a) with gathered rim containing plant-like materials and bits of black cloth, a white-grey coloured crescent-shaped stone (part b), a rectangular-shaped dark grey flint piece (part c), and a light brown-yellow square piece of paper (part d).

Culture
Inuit
Material
seal skin, moss, flint mineral, stone, paper and fibre
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dipper1718/34

Oval-shaped dipper with long grey coloured bone handle protruding from one of its sides. The base of the dipper is yellow in colour, the band around its rim and the inside of the dipper are dark brown in colour. The dark-brown portions of the piece are covered with small white coloured hairs that are inherent to seal skin.

Culture
Inuit
Material
seal skin, sinew and bone
Made in
Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, Canada and Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Model Kayak1339/2 a-k

Brown coloured model kayak boat (part a) that widens in the middle and tapers to a point at the front and back end. A human figure (part b) with a grey coloured carved face is wearing a light yellow coloured hooded parka and mittens with red coloured stitching. Attached to the front and back of the boat by three skin bands are the following objects: part c is a white-yellow point that attaches to a large T-shaped skin bag by skin cording; part d is a long blunt bone-tipped spear with thin fibre cording around the wood handle; part e is a long paddle with two wide paddle ends; part f is a large hooked spear with three additional barbs around its handle; part g is a rectangular-shaped knife; part h is a slightly larger rectangular-shaped knife found with the human figure; part i is a long pointed spear; part j is a small hooked spear; part k is a long wood paddle(?) with two indented knobs at its centre.

Culture
Inuit
Material
skin, wood, bone and fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Seal Figure1542/6

Brown-grey coloured seal figure with plump body, two small carved frontal fins under its breast, an upturned head with light-brown carved eyes, nose and whiskers, and a narrow tapered tail with carved groove lines.

Culture
Inuit
Material
stone
Made in
Salluit, Quebec, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bird Figure1542/14

Small light-yellow coloured bird figure with plump body, thick neck, small head, slightly defined short beak, and tapered tail feather. Slight indentations and carved horizontal lines on either side of the body to define wings and feather pattern.

Culture
Inuit
Material
bone
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sculpture1339/15

A light brown piece used as a landscape into which 21 little white birds are resting in their nests.

Culture
Inuit
Material
whale bone and walrus tusk ?
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Scraper898/1

Thin gray-white coloured antler scraper. Handle portion of the scrapper curves upwards, has a small lip at its end and is decorated with two criss-cross designs with lines down the centre. The second half of the scrapper curves downwards and tapers to a sharpened point.

Culture
Inuit
Material
reindeer antler
Made in
Tasiilaq, Greenland
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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