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Stocking

Object Number:97-48-5D
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Eskimo
Provenience: Greenland
Culture Area: Arctic Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Skin
Sealskin
Credit Line:Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number:L-6-5D - Old Museum Number

Description

Inner Stocking of kamik boot

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.

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