Boots (footwear)

Museum number:
2-60a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020060a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Ankle-height boots, depilated sealskin soles, brown caribou uppers. Boot-top decoration in geometric patterns, white and brown caribou, bands of bleached leather, decorative stiching and border of mink (?) fur. Bleached leather ankle ties. Cotton and gut thread. Very similar to 2-59 a,b.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Neovison vison and Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shoes (footwear)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 19.5 centimeters, measurements for storage— width 11.5 centimeters, measurements for storage— height 14 centimeters, and measurements for storage— length 25.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-60a,b, described as Ankle-height boots, depilated sealskin soles, brown caribou uppers. Boot-top decoration in geometric patterns, white and brown caribou, bands of bleached leather, decorative stiching and border of mink (?) fur. Bleached leather ankle ties. Cotton and gut thread. Very similar to 2-59 a,b.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-60a,b, described as Ankle-height boots, depilated sealskin soles, brown caribou uppers. Boot-top decoration in geometric patterns, white and brown caribou, bands of bleached leather, decorative stiching and border of mink (?) fur. Bleached leather ankle ties. Cotton and gut thread. Very similar to 2-59 a,b.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-60a,b, described as Ankle-height boots, depilated sealskin soles, brown caribou uppers. Boot-top decoration in geometric patterns, white and brown caribou, bands of bleached leather, decorative stiching and border of mink (?) fur. Bleached leather ankle ties. Cotton and gut thread. Very similar to 2-59 a,b.

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