Mukluks

Boot

NA4873

From: Alaska | Wainwright

Curatorial Section: American

Native Name Mukluk
Object Number NA4873
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Eskimo
Provenience Alaska | Wainwright
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Fur | Leather | Cloth
Description

Child's mukluks with leather soles and fur uppers. Border of white fur and blue cloth around the top of each shoe. Leather thong attached to each shoe between leather and fur. Writing on sole of the left shoe: "Baby mukluks (2). Fawn skin uppers. Walrus skin bottoms. 291. Walrus...."

Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Arctic: Wainwright Region; William Blair Van Valin, 1919
Other Number 291 - Other Number

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