Boots (footwear)

Museum number:
2-59a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020059a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Ankle-height boots, depilated sealskin soles, caribou uppers. Geometric decorative patterns around boot-tops of decorative embroidery, white and brown checkwork, bands of bleached leather, border of mink (?) fur. Cotton drawstrings. Bleached leather ankle ties. Cotton and gut thread used.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Neovison vison and Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shoes (footwear)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 19.5 centimeters, measurements for storage— length 27 centimeters, measurements for storage— width 10 centimeters, and measurements for storage— height 15 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-59a,b, described as Ankle-height boots, depilated sealskin soles, caribou uppers. Geometric decorative patterns around boot-tops of decorative embroidery, white and brown checkwork, bands of bleached leather, border of mink (?) fur. Cotton drawstrings. Bleached leather ankle ties. Cotton and gut thread used.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-59a,b, described as Ankle-height boots, depilated sealskin soles, caribou uppers. Geometric decorative patterns around boot-tops of decorative embroidery, white and brown checkwork, bands of bleached leather, border of mink (?) fur. Cotton drawstrings. Bleached leather ankle ties. Cotton and gut thread used.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 2-59a,b, described as Ankle-height boots, depilated sealskin soles, caribou uppers. Geometric decorative patterns around boot-tops of decorative embroidery, white and brown checkwork, bands of bleached leather, border of mink (?) fur. Cotton drawstrings. Bleached leather ankle ties. Cotton and gut thread used.

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