Boot (footwear)

Museum number:
2-57b
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Boot with depilated sealskin sole, caribou upper with 2 vertical strips of white and brown fur down sides. Upper decorated with geometric checkwork white and brown squares of caribou, bleached leather wolverine fringe and red flannel drawstring tube with cotton drawstring. Leather handle straps. Cotton thread used throughout.
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:
Gulo gulo
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 2-57b, described as Boot with depilated sealskin sole, caribou upper with 2 vertical strips of white and brown fur down sides. Upper decorated with geometric checkwork white and brown squares of caribou, bleached leather wolverine fringe and red flannel drawstring tube with cotton drawstring. Leather handle straps. Cotton thread used throughout.

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