Woman's Clothing Set: Pair Of Boots
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: James W. Johnson
notes: label: Notes
content: The boots are made from multiple pieces of caribou fur stitched together with sinew. Bands of lighter colored fur on both the inside and outside of the leggings provide color contrast for the full length. Decorative strips of light and dark colored fur, painted red on the skin side, are stitched into many of the seams, hanging like tassels. Occasionally lengths of twisted red wool also are stitched with the fur strips. Long fur strips for securing each boot are stitched on the top edge at the center front and center back. The soles are made from rigid, de-furred seal skin, crimped at both the heel and toe. The proper lef boot sole has an ethnographic repair. The interior surface of the boots is the flesh side of the caribou strips, not embellished in any way. The following information is penned in black ink directly on the underside of the soles and is nearly indecipherable: "76708 Ft. Alexander Alaska".
label: Notes
content: Described and illus. pp. 194 - 198 in Fienup-Riordan Ann Alice Rearden and Marie Meade. 2023. Tengautuli Atkuk = the Flying Parka : The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Caribou-skin boots, made from legs of a large caribou. "Albertina [Dull] explained that long boots reaching the top of the leg are known as qamquinaat." Martina [Aparezuk]: "They have a nuqyun [strip of skin for pulling (the boot) up].""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Fort Alexander (Nushagak), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 016879
label: USNM Number
content: E76708-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Boot
physicalDescription: label: Length - Right Boot
content: 23.5 cm
label: Width - Right Boot
content: 8.5 cm
label: Height - Right Boot
content: 70 cm
label: Length - Left Boot
content: 23 cm
label: Width - Left Boot
content: 8 cm
label: Height - Left Boot
content: 72 cm