Reindeer Skin Sleeping Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Oct 1907
label: Collection Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Greely Relief Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Field Museum Of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: On p. 122 of Schley, W.S. and J.R. Soley. Rescue of Greely. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1885, it is noted that the British Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith had provided the Greely Relief Expedition with "his Arctic outift of sledges, tents, and clothing ...". On p. 133 of the same book, the clothing for the Greely Relief Expedition is described as being made for the expedition in New York, using reindeer skins ordered from Sweden, with some material also purchased in Tassuisak, Greenland. On p. 134 reindeer sleeping bags are described as being made for the expedition: "Sleeping-bags for work in sledging were made of reindeer skin with the fur inside. They were about eight feet long and thirty inches wide, cut somewhat to the shape of the figure. They were fitted with a slit to facilitate getting in and out, with a round hole or opening for the face, covered by a flap closing toward the foot." E248310, which is sewn with thread, may be one of these manufactured sleeping bags?, though it is currently stored fur side out.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arctic (not certain), United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo (?)
label: Culture
content: American (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 047967
label: USNM Number
content: E248310-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sleeping Bag