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sock
(?)
Object Type
sock
(?)
Museum number
Am1996,03.3.c-d
Description
Pair of boy's socks or duffels of blue wool cloth, with brown inside, with line of blue extending over edge at the top. Going with boots (3.a-b).
Producer name
Made by:
Ms Germaine Immariotok
Production ethnic group
Made by:
Inuit
Made by:
Arctic Peoples
Made by:
Iglulingmiut
Made by:
Iglulik
Production date
1992-1993
Excavator/field collector
Field Collection by:
Jonathan C H King
(British Museum Ethnography Dept. staff; field collection)
Findspot
Found/Acquired:
Igloolik Island
Found/Acquired:
Melville Peninsula
Materials
wool
Curator's comments
Eth.Doc.1181. Field collection by J.C.H.King. Germaine Immariotok made the boots for her son Kirk when he was 7, at the time of purchase he was 11. The maker called them kamikpak, a term more usually used for socks. (JCK,9/1996). In set with Am1996,03.03.a-b
Location
Not on display
Condition
Fair.
Acquisition date
1996
Department
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number
Am1996,03.3.c-d