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E7726A-0 - Boots (1 Pair)Back

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Description

A pair of boots made with caribou leg skins and bleached seal hide soles. Pieces of white and dark caribou skin make decorative stripes down both sides of the shins. Numerous small skin tags are sewn in at intervals down the stripes. The pointed soles have dense pleating around the fore portion of the foot and the heel. A pointed vamp made up of strips of dehaired dark and light sealskins joins the leg section and the sole. A casement holds a drawstring around the top of the boot.

Information from the Smithsonian

FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1977."

  • Collection: Macfarlane Collection
  • Catalogue Number: E7726A-0
  • Object Type: footwear
  • Materials: hide, sinew
  • Manufacturing Techniques: cutting, sewing, scraping, crimping
  • Tags: clothing

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