Moccasins

Museum number:
2-2755a,b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Ankle height moccasins, depilated sealskin sole, crimped front and rear; tanned, scraped deerskin upper with colored beadwork and textile anthropomorphic decoration on instep, red yarn in sole-upper seam. Eskimo origin although found among the Northern Athabaskans of the Upper Yukon. May have had tag indicating Upper Yukon origin.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Upper Yukon River, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
; Upper Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Moccasins
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— width 28 centimeters, measurements for storage— length 13 centimeters, measurements for storage— height 14 centimeters, and 26 centimeters
Comment:
References: Murdoc, John. Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition, 9th Ann. BAE 1892, pp. 129-135, fig. 77, 79, 81; also Cornelius Osgood, Contributions to the Ethnography of the Kutchin, Yale Univ. Publ. in Anthro., #14, 1936, p. 40 & Pl. 6.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-2755a,b, described as Ankle height moccasins, depilated sealskin sole, crimped front and rear; tanned, scraped deerskin upper with colored beadwork and textile anthropomorphic decoration on instep, red yarn in sole-upper seam. Eskimo origin although found among the Northern Athabaskans of the Upper Yukon. May have had tag indicating Upper Yukon origin.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-2755a,b, described as Ankle height moccasins, depilated sealskin sole, crimped front and rear; tanned, scraped deerskin upper with colored beadwork and textile anthropomorphic decoration on instep, red yarn in sole-upper seam. Eskimo origin although found among the Northern Athabaskans of the Upper Yukon. May have had tag indicating Upper Yukon origin.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-2755a,b, described as Ankle height moccasins, depilated sealskin sole, crimped front and rear; tanned, scraped deerskin upper with colored beadwork and textile anthropomorphic decoration on instep, red yarn in sole-upper seam. Eskimo origin although found among the Northern Athabaskans of the Upper Yukon. May have had tag indicating Upper Yukon origin.

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