Pair of Child's Summer Boots
Iñupiaq
Western Arctic
Arctic
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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