Scott Polar Research Institute
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| Accession no.: | Y: 2018/4/11a | ||||||
| Title: | Boot | ||||||
| Description: | One of a pair of women's seal-skin boots decorated with a combination of toothed and geometric embroidered avitat patterns in red, blue, green, brown and yellow around the circumference of the calf. The upper has been repaired where torn over the top of the foot and the sole has been patched. 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 women's seal-skin boots. The upper is white with a combination of toothed and geometric embroidered avitat patterns in red, blue, green, brown and yellow around the circumference of the calf. The sole is made with darker, de-haired seal skin. The structural stitching is done with sinew thread, while the avitat is stitched with tetile thread. A curved line of stitching runs along from the top edge of the sole towards the centre of the area that would sit above the toes. The sole has a circular patch at the front. |
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