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Description: | "The Inuit of Arctic America used all the limited resources available to them to provide food, clothing and equipment. They used the hides from the animals they hunted to provide clothing, tents and kayaks, and these were sewn together with strips of sinew, from the tendon of the animal. Twisted and finely-plaited sinew also provided twine and bindings. This is a piece of sinew from which strips can be taken, the linear quality of the raw material can be seen and some strips are already half-detached. The sinew was often soaked in water to make it more pliable and it was chewed to prepare it, a job often done by girls and women even old women could do this when they were unable to participate in more active occupations. This piece of sinew was attached to a pair of Inuit boots which were collected in Canada at the beginning of the 20th century, and may have been provided for mending them."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 2000 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: McPherson, Dr John | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1890-1910 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Inuit | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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