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Description: | The textile collection consists of around 120 items. These relate mainly to the academic dress of the University of St Andrews. Other material includes a Sudanese costume thought to have been worn in the 1920s by an overseas student, and a Norwegian flag carried by the explorer and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Fridtjof Nansen on the ‘Farthest North’ Arctic expedition of 1895, presented to the University during Nansen's Rectorship (1925-8). | Subjects: | flag ACADEMIC DRESS textiles costume and textiles SCOTTISH HISTORY | Source: | University of St Andrews | Address: | KY16 9AJ | Creator: | University of St Andrews | Contributor: | University of St Andrews | Identifier: | HC:C60 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | MC:C48 |
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