Pair Of Moccasins Or Shoes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Uppers with applique geometric cutwork designs. Unusual pattern. Uppers (leggings) missing. Very old (perhaps even 18th century), very valuable. Could only identify by comparison with Soviet collections.: Data provided 15 Dec. '82 by Dr. Ilja S. Gurvich, Head of Northern and Siberian Peoples Dept., Institute of Ethnography, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow, through Wm. C. Sturtevant."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=697 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Shoes. "These are summer boots, very low, snow would get inside. They are maybe for fall or late spring. It's high here [the deep sole] so you don't get wet." -Nicolai Ettyne, 2005 These elaborately stitched summer slippers have bleached skin tops and bearded seal soles. The ornamentation is done with strips and cut-outs of dyed skin. The soles are waterproof, with pleated toes and heels, and rise up around the edges of the shoes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chukchi
label: Culture
content: Koryak
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358497-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 29 cm