Captain Robert Falcon Scott's personal housewife or "ditty bag" taken to the Antarctic on display at The Polar Museum in Cambridge UK.

---

Captain Scott's personal housewife or "ditty bag" taken to the Antarctic on display at The Polar Museum in Cambridge UK. A housewife or 'ditty bag' for repairing clothes which belonged to Captain Scott and was used on the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 (Discovery).

---

Size: 6750px × 4259px
Location: The Polar Museum, Cambridge UK
Photo credit: © Andy Soloman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: antarctic, bag, bravery, buttons, cambridge, canvas, captain, cold, cotton, darn, darning, died, discovery, display, ditty, effects, elastic, equipment, essential, essentials, expedition, failure, folded, freezing, heros, housewife, indoors, institute, items, kit, lifestyle, memories, mend, mending, museum, needle, needles, personal, polar, possessions, repair, repairing, research, scott, sewing, ship, struggle, style, supplies, tape, thread, uk, unfolded, wrapped