Scott Polar Research Institute
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| Accession no.: | Y: 2018/4/10b | ||||||
| Title: | Boot | ||||||
| Description: | One of a pair of children's seal-skin boots decorated with a narrow horizantal red band surmounted by a band of embroidered avitat trefoils around the circumference of the calf. Collected by Professor Lawrence Rickard and Phyllis Wager during the British East Greenland Expedition, 1935-36. | ||||||
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| Number of items: | 1 | ||||||
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One of a pair of children's seal-skin boots. The upper is white with a narrow horizantal red band surmounted by a band of embroidered avitat trefoils around the circumference of the calf. The sole is made with brown, de-haired seal skin. The structural stitching is done with sinew thread, while the avitat is attached with tetile thread. |
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