Boot (footwear)

Museum number:
2-56b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm2102000056b
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Knee-length boot. Depilated seal skin soles, caribou uppers. Extensive decoration: bands of bleached leather between sole and uppers, bleached leather ankle-straps, wolf skin fringe and tassels below boot-top. Extensive geometric checkwork decorations with brown and white caribou, bleached leather, red yarn. Colored drawstring.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shoes (footwear)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Boot (footwear), accession number 2-56b, described as Knee-length boot. Depilated seal skin soles, caribou uppers. Extensive decoration: bands of bleached leather between sole and uppers, bleached leather ankle-straps, wolf skin fringe and tassels below boot-top. Extensive geometric checkwork decorations with brown and white caribou, bleached leather, red yarn. Colored drawstring.

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