Boot

2003-43-60B

From: Siberia | Amur River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 2003-43-60B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Siberia | Amur River
Culture Area Siberia
Section American
Materials Sealskin | Hide
Technique Sewn
Description

One of a pair of high boots, probably of sealskin; bottoms are a single piece of skin gathered at the heel and toe; hide lashings are attached at the base of the sealskin fur uppers; the uppers are trimmed with a piece of light colored hide through which a hide pullstring runs.

Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1899.1.60 a,b - Other Number

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