Object Details
Culture/People
Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
Previous owner
Paul Friesen, Non-Indian
Donor
Paul Friesen, Non-Indian
Collection History
Commissioned by Paul Friesen from an Iñupiaq woman in Barrow, Alaska, when he was stationed on Adak island in the Aleutians in the late 1960s; donated to NMAI by Paul Friesen in 2016.
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Date created
1968
Catalog Number
26/9792
Barcode
269792.000
Object Type
Clothing/Garments: Footwear
Object Name
Man's boots
Media/Materials
Caribou hide/skin, sealskin/fur, cotton cloth, felt, thread, dye/dyes
Techniques
Sewn, dyed
Dimensions
39.7 x 11.5 x 28.0 cm
Place
Barrow (Ukpeagvik, Ooglaamie); Arctic Slope Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
See related items
Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
Clothing/Garments: Footwear
Data Source
National Museum of the American Indian
Link to Original Record
Record ID
NMAI_411233