Boots (footwear)

Museum number:
2-61a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020061a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Depilated sealskin soles, sealskin uppers. Extensive decoration: fronts of uppers with 2 horizontal panels of white clipped caribou, red-dyed leather, beads and strips of ground squirrel fur. Single beaded tassel of wolverine fur. Boot-top drawstring tube, leather drawstring with fur and bead tassles. Leather ankle straps.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Kuskokwim River, Kuskokwim, Unknown Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kuskokwim; Kuskokwim River
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Gulo gulo and Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shoes (footwear)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— length 41 centimeters, 43 centimeters, measurements for storage— height 11.5 centimeters, and measurements for storage— width 28 centimeters
Loans:
S1986-1987 #16: Stan Musilek (January 20, 1987–January 21, 1987)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-61a,b, described as Depilated sealskin soles, sealskin uppers. Extensive decoration: fronts of uppers with 2 horizontal panels of white clipped caribou, red-dyed leather, beads and strips of ground squirrel fur. Single beaded tassel of wolverine fur. Boot-top drawstring tube, leather drawstring with fur and bead tassles. Leather ankle straps.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-61a,b, described as Depilated sealskin soles, sealskin uppers. Extensive decoration: fronts of uppers with 2 horizontal panels of white clipped caribou, red-dyed leather, beads and strips of ground squirrel fur. Single beaded tassel of wolverine fur. Boot-top drawstring tube, leather drawstring with fur and bead tassles. Leather ankle straps.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-61a,b, described as Depilated sealskin soles, sealskin uppers. Extensive decoration: fronts of uppers with 2 horizontal panels of white clipped caribou, red-dyed leather, beads and strips of ground squirrel fur. Single beaded tassel of wolverine fur. Boot-top drawstring tube, leather drawstring with fur and bead tassles. Leather ankle straps.

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