Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, Arctic Collections and Museology: Presentations, Disseminations, and Interpretations, 2018, pp. 117-136
Description
Author describes the collection of artifacts and clothing amassed by Finnish scientist Henrik Johan Holmberg during an 1851 expedition, and how that collection was purchased by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen for the Museum of Northern Antiquities and is now part of a large collection of skin clothing made by circumpolar Indigenous peoples.