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Object Number 15-36-10/86649.1
Display Title Woman's seal skin slippers or moccasins.
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's slippers or moccasins. Made of seal skin. Ornamented with cut-out piece. Additional descriptive notes in Conservation.
Inventory Description Slippers, right shoe, white skin, polychrome applique design at toe.
Classification
  • Slipper
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1902
Culture
  • Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Dimensions Overall: 24.4 x 7 x 5 cm (9 5/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 86649.1
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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