And, before you ask – we did not sign up for any tours. It was obvious to both George & I that we had been here before, just by looking at the town on the tender ride into the pier.
(Pictures of the town etc when I get them off the Canon.)
The Museum here is contained in two separate buildings. Obviously I headed toward anything looking like fiber or handwork
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- Knit in pattern
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- stitched
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- lace insert
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- knit
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- lovely bright beads
Then there was the section which pertained to shaman’s, stories, and Inuit history. The creature strongly resembles a bear and I suspect the stories had much to do with respecting and following the guidance of the Shaman and one’s elders as anything else.
From there we moved onto the second house which had an interesting combination of old Norse on one side of the single room building – the colony of which seemed to vanish ~ 485-500 CE with no one having a clue with obviously Norse looking dress –
which would have been woven from wool on a vertical weighted loom in long strips which were pieced together. I am thinking this sample is significantly later than 1200 not just from the preservation but the fact that the neckline is round and the sleeves appear to be slightly set in along with a taper to the dress.
After a significant more bit of walking around and getting damp from the rain, we headed back to the ship…
George read, I spent more time with the Sheeppunk stitchings…
