Mukluks

Museum number:
2-2973a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21022973a@2cb
Alternate number:
12 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.26
Description:
Legs made from seal skin. Soles from the hide of the walrus or big bull seal.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Cape Prince of Wales, Coast of Bering Strait, Bering Strait
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Bering Strait; Cape Prince of Wales
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
H. H. Cushing
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mukluks
Accession date:
December 16, 1902
Context of use:
For a child. "Made by the natives at Cape Prince of Wales and used by them entirely. They are waterproof...The miners are using them now".
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Called "oogrook" (walrus or big bull seal) the latter is the best, weighs 900 lbs." Miners using them now and "has run up the prices two and three hundred percent.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mukluks, accession number 2-2973a,b, described as Legs made from seal skin. Soles from the hide of the walrus or big bull seal.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mukluks, accession number 2-2973a,b, described as Legs made from seal skin. Soles from the hide of the walrus or big bull seal.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mukluks, accession number 2-2973a,b, described as Legs made from seal skin. Soles from the hide of the walrus or big bull seal.

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