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| Accession no.: |
Y: 2007/4/2a-b |
| Object name: |
Boot |
| Title: |
Boot |
| Description: |
A pair of Greenlandic sealskin boots with sinew thongs, belonging to Quintin Riley and used on his polar expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. |
| Classified name: |
| SPRI theme |
clothing and footwear
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| Current place name |
Polar regions
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| UDC |
685.31
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| Geographic UDC |
(*2)
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| Getty AAT |
boots
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| Number of items: |
2 |
| Full description: |
A pair of sealskin boots (fur-side out). The fur has marbled pattern, perhaps from a leopard seal. Each boot is constructed from three pieces of skin: two for the leg (with fur) and one for the sole (without fur) which extends over the sides and is gathered at the toe and heel. There is a small leather loop on either side of the boot about a third of the way from the toe with a sinew thong passed through them. Stitched inside the top of each boot is a short length of textile tape, and a length of string is fixed on either side at the top back of each boot (one of these strings on (a) is broken).
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| Dimensions: |
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Height: 450mm, length: 265mm
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| Associated person(s): |
- : Riley, Quintin Theodore Petroc Molesworth ( - )
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Scott Polar Research Institute
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