Boot

97-48-5A

From: Greenland

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 97-48-5A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Eskimo
Provenience Greenland
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Skin | Sealskin
Description

Kamik boot with Inner Stockings

Half boots - Older woman's - of depilated skin dyed black with horizontal band of skin mosaic in white, red, green and yellow. Containing - one pair white sealskin stocking, skin in, with a three-inch skin band outside at the top where it shows above the boot. A=right boot, B=stocking of right boot, C=left boot, D=stocking of left boot.

Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-6-5A - Old Museum Number

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