Man's Fancy Boots
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT 1, PL. XXI-7, P. 60. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. INVENTORIED 1976."
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=109 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Boots. These men's boots are from the Inupiaq community of King Island in the Bering Sea, but they are richly decorated in Siberian style with strips of alder-dyed skin and geometric patterns stitched with reindeer hair. The white boot legs are made of reindeer fur, a valuable trade good obtained through Siberian trade. Cross-cultural influence and exchange among the indigenous peoples on both sides of Bering Strait has been extensive. These boots originally had ankle straps (now missing) that secured them for dancing.
label: Notes
content: From 2008 Anthropology Conservation Treatment Report: The pair of boots are constructed with hard sealskin soles and pieced reindeer uppers with a narrow casing holding a skin tie at the opening. The boots reach to just below the knee. The boots are elaborately decorated with pieced dyed sealskin, reindeer hair embroidery, red and dark blue wool thread and esophagus strips with wolverine and seal pup hair.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: King Island, Bering Strait, 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: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E48132-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Boot
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 61 cm