Museum catalogue: Arctic Material Culture Collection
Boot
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Accession no.: | Y: 2000/1/3/3a-b | ||||||||
Title: | Boot | ||||||||
Description: | Boots, one pair. Inupiat (Alaskan Eskimo) or Saint Lawrence Island Yupik. Alaska, United States of America, before April 2000. | ||||||||
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Number of items: | 2 | ||||||||
Full description: |
One pair. Sole is made from a single piece of dehaired seal skin turned over the sides of the foot and crimped around the toe and heel. Upper is made from dehaired cream (bleached) seal skin decorated on toe section in sylized floral and leaf motif in orange, pink, purple, blue, grey, cream, black, light brown and white embroidery thread applied in satin and outline stitches. Strip of dehaired seal skin dyed red |
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