Pair of Child's Summer Boots

Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic

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collected 1905

Seal hide, commercial thread, and red and yellow pigment

Overall: 4 3/4 × 2 3/16 × 5 1/2 in. (12 × 5.6 × 13.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9790

Geography

Place Made: Point Barrow, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Footwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic

Not on view

Provenance

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Point Barrow, Alaska, probably 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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