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Boots with sinew and cotton or silk embroidered gut tops.
Boots with sinew and cotton or silk embroidered gut tops.
Object Number 90-17-10/48420
Display Title Boots with sinew and cotton or silk embroidered gut tops.
Descriptions
Object Description Boots with sinew and cotton or silk embroidered gut tops. Would have been worn with moss inside under sole of foot.
Inventory Description Boots, hide, dark foot, lt. top, bands of quill work and red hide, fur, damaged
Classification
  • Boot
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Aleut?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska?
Additional Geographic Terms Aleutian Islands?
Materials Phocini Seal skin , Goat skin , Caribou sinew , Quill , Animal fur , Cotton? , Silk? , Yarn
Dimensions Overall: 39 x 25 x 9.5 cm (15 3/8 x 9 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1 Pair
Label on object 48420
Provenance
Collector Unknown
Donor American Antiquarian Society (01/01/1890)

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