jacket
- Museum number
- Am2001,14.1
- Description
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Kayaker's jacket (tuilik) of dehaired sealskin (adult harp seal?), with drawstrings around hood, wrists and lower edge.
- Production date
- 1986-1990 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 120 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Eth.Doc. [no.?].
The tuilik was made by a woman from Napasoq (Maniitsoq municipality) for John Petersen, kayak champion and member of the kayak club in Nuuk c 1988-1996. He reportedly used the tuilik in the rolling competitions in the Greenland Kayak Championships as well as on a long kayak tour to North Greenland in the early 1990s.
John Petersen sold the tuilik to Ujarak J. Heinrich, also a member of the Kayak Club Nuuk, in the winter 1996/7. Ujarak Heinrich used the tuilik for the rolling competitions in the Championships in 1998-2000, and (because of stormy weather) on the kayak race from Narsalik to Paamiut in 1997.
Ujarak Heinrich now sells the tuilik because the skin is so thin that it tears very easily, and it cannot be repaired any longer.
(All information from Ujarak J. Heinrich, 18.6.2001)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair, except for several tears near the lower edge of the tuilik.
- Acquisition date
- 2001
- Acquisition notes
- B.Pauksztat field collection. Jacket bought from Ujarak J. Heinrich, Nuuk, 18.6.2001.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am2001,14.1