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OXFORD'S Pitt Rivers Museum will offer a rare insight into Inuit culture at a special display event today.
The museum will showcase a sail from an umiak - or woman's boat, collected from an Inuit group in the Hudson Strait in 1824.
Specialists will be on hand to discuss the object at the free event from 2.30pm.
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