Childs Shoes (1 Pair)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Dec 1882
label: Collection Date
content: 1881 to 1882
name: label: Collector
content: James T. Brown
label: Donor Name
content: James T. Brown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ESQUIMOS. INVENTORIED 1976."
label: Notes
content: This object is described on p. 88 of Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.. It is identified there as "Eskimo Shoes. Pair of infant's shoes worn indoors, seal-skin, sewed with thread made from the sinew of the backbone of the deer. Eskimo, Hudson Bay. Length, 4 1/8 inches. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1882. U.S. Fish Commission. Obtained from crew of whaling brig "George and Mary.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Hudson Bay / Marble Island (near), Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00028
label: USNM Number
content: E68142-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shoe