Womens trousers/boots, caribou or deerskin, fur out. Legs pieced together with white and brown fur panels. Attached boots with white depilitated creased sealskin soles. No drawstring, drawstring tobe or loops.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Point Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Point Barrow
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Sealskin
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
for woman
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— length 97 centimeters, measurements for storage— height 11.5 centimeters, 114 centimeters, and measurements for storage— width 25.5 centimeters
Comment:
Description: Very similar to specimen in Murdoch, 1892:126-127, fig. 72.
Loans:
S1965-1966 #23: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (September 29, 1965–September 29, 1965) and S1976-1977 #88: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (June 20, 1977–September 8, 1977)