Water Boots

Kitlinermiut (Copper Inuit)
Central Arctic
Arctic

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collected about 1938-1941

Leather and cloth

Overall: 8 1/4 × 11 in. (21 × 28 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. A. Lincoln Washburn, Class of 1935W

174.2.25534

Geography

Place Found: Coronation Gulf, Canada, North America

Object Name

Clothing: Footwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Central and Eastern

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Dr. Albert Lincoln Washburn (1911-2007), Class of 1935, Professor of Geology (1953-1961), during his fieldwork (for his PhD dissertation at Yale University) on Victoria Island, Northwest Territories between 1938-1941;given to present collection by his wife, Barbara Tahoe Talbot Washburn (1911-2007), 1974.

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