Boot with depilated sealskin sole, sealskin upper. Extensive decoration: front of upper 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 tassels. 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)
Loans:
S1983-1984 #14: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Anderson (Hupa) (September 19, 1983–September 26, 1983)