Salmon skin boots, "chep-keri"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: 2 small boots made of salmon skin, tied together with rope. Hand-sewn. Fin protruding from bottom. Used for walking on snow and ice. Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People" using traditional Ainu materials and techniques.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E430751-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Boot
physicalDescription: label: Length - Each
content: 21 cm
label: Width - Each
content: 8 cm
label: Height - Each
content: 13 cm