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Report a Mistake- Date Made 1916 or earlier
- Event --
- Affiliation Inuinnaq culture
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Object Number IV-D-1041 a-b
- Place of Origin --
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, footwear
- Department Ethnology
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1700/01/01
- Latest 1916/12/31
- Materials Mammal skin, Fibre
- Geo-Cultural Code IV-D
- Measurements Length 112.0 cm, Width 36.0 cm
- Caption Woman's dance costume
- Additional Information The Inuinnaq (Copper Inuit) were so named because of their use of nearly pure raw copper to make a variety of edged tools. Inuinnaq (Copper Inuit) clothing was decorative as well as warm, with elaborately inlaid strips of different-coloured hide. Because of a taboo against mixing the products of land and sea, caribou-skin clothing was usually made in the autumn, before the people moved onto the winter ice. Just as men were judged on their hunting skills, women were judged on their sewing abilities. In fact, many men preferred to take a much older wife, who would be a more accomplished seamstress.