Knee-length. Depilitated seal skin soles, caribou uppers. Extensive decoration: bands of bleached leather between sole and uppers, bleached leather ankle-straps, wolf skin fringe and tassels below boot-top. Extensive geometric checkwork decorations with brown and white caribou, bleached leather, red yarn. Colored drawstring.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shoes (footwear)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 43.5 centimeters, measurements for storage— length 41 centimeters, measurements for storage— height 10 centimeters, and measurements for storage— width 28 centimeters
Loans:
S1967-1968 #104: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (February 28, 1968–March 4, 1968) and S1968-1969 #50: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Joanne Segal Brandford (November 26, 1968–November 26, 1968)