Bleached leather, depilitated sealskin soles cripmed at toes and heels, trimmed with lavender cotton thread stitching around edge of vamp, geometric design on front ankle area in green and red cotton thread, green rick-rack and narrow brown leather trim around top, cotton felt inner foot pad. Hand sewn.
Donor:
Murial Cook
Collection place:
Western Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Western Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Clara Hayes Gaddie Moon
Collection date:
1933-1957
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shoes (footwear)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 21 centimeters, length 27.5 centimeters, measurements for storage— length 21 centimeters, and measurements for storage— width 28 centimeters
Comment:
References: Sturtevant, William C., ed. Handbook of North American Indians, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1984, Volume 5, p. 286, Fig. 1, p. 289, p. 304, Fig. 1.