Boots (footwear)

Museum number:
2-6899a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21026899a@2cb
Alternate number:
121 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
Approximately knee-height boots. Leather soles, caribou skin uppers with white and brawn vertical panels. Horizontal bands of caribou and depilated leather around boot-tops. Rawhide ankle straps. Constructed with sinew thread.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shoes (footwear)
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— height 8 centimeters, measurements for storage— length 48 centimeters, height 43 centimeters, and measurements for storage— width 28 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-6899a,b, described as Approximately knee-height boots. Leather soles, caribou skin uppers with white and brawn vertical panels. Horizontal bands of caribou and depilated leather around boot-tops. Rawhide ankle straps. Constructed with sinew thread.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-6899a,b, described as Approximately knee-height boots. Leather soles, caribou skin uppers with white and brawn vertical panels. Horizontal bands of caribou and depilated leather around boot-tops. Rawhide ankle straps. Constructed with sinew thread.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-6899a,b, described as Approximately knee-height boots. Leather soles, caribou skin uppers with white and brawn vertical panels. Horizontal bands of caribou and depilated leather around boot-tops. Rawhide ankle straps. Constructed with sinew thread.

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