boot
- Museum number
- Am1996,03.7.a-b
- Description
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Pair of girl's winter boots or kamiks, modified from a type called tuktukuti, that is caribou slippers with the hair in for mid-winter use, here soled with commercially tanned skin. The upper of caribou fur would normally be separate [socks] called kamikpak; here the socks are sewn to the slippers. The ties are of black and white plaited wool cords, held in pink material loops inside top of boots. There are dark appliquéd strips to white skin vamps.
- Production date
- 1994
- Dimensions
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Height: 2 centimetres
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Length: 19 centimetres
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Width: 9 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Eth.Doc.1181. Field collection by J.C.H.King, 1996. Made in 1994 by Marie Aerrut for her granddaughter Linda Aerrut. (JCK,10/1996).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair.
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1996,03.7.a-b
