Long skin boots with leather uppers. White leather uppers, trimmed along the sides with black and red yarn tufts inserted into seams; narrow band of contrasting sealskin around top edge with red & black tufts inserted into seams; brown commercial leather used for the vamps & hard walrus
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shoes (footwear)
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— length 62 centimeters and measurements for storage— width 28 centimeters