Pair of Summer Waterproof Boots
Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic
mid-20th century
Seal hide, probably bearded seal leather, sinew, cord, thread
Overall: 17 5/16 × 4 1/8 × 11 in. (44 × 10.5 × 28 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alan Cooke, Class of 1955
163.47.15161
Geography
Place Made: Point Hope, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Course History
NAS 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Medeia Krisztina C. DeHass, Spring 2013
NAS 37, ANTH 47, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Winter 2014
NAS 37, ANTH 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Montshire Museum of Science Exhibition
Race to the Top: Arctic Inspiration 1909 & Today, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, January 23-May 17, 2009.
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Juanuary 27-May 13,2007.
Publication History
Nicole Stuckenberger, Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 6, no.42.
Provenance
Collected by Alan Gordon Richard Cooke (Dartmouth, Class of 1955; 1933-1989), about 1960; given to present collection, 1963.
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