Sealskin Boots
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Knee-high boots made of golden seal fur, fur turned outwards. Drawstring of cord at top. Two straps on each boot, made of sealskin, overlapping around front of boot. Soles crimped at heel and toe. One book has small circular patch in back of upper leg."
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=717 , retrieved 11-25-2021; see web page for additional information: Boots, Inupiaq, Northwest Alaska. These [man's/child's] snow boots for fall and winter are made of spotted seal skin with the fur turned toward the outside. This style is also called mitquligaak, which means "including fur." The soles are made of bearded seal hide. The boots would have been worn with warm fur socks and insulating grass pads.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Northwest, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1650-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Boot
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 22 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 39 cm