Skin boots, waterproof construction. Replica of mans seal hunting boots, fide Jean Loup Rousselot. According to Ronald W. Senugetuk (July 1987) it is not a replica. Spring wear for hunting, made of waterproof seal skin with hair removed, white bleached seal skin with epidermus removed, oogruk soles in King Island/Diomede/Wales style.
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)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— length 46 centimeters and measurements for storage— width 28 centimeters