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Boots, Mukluks

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Title	Boots, Mukluks
Creator	Brown, Mabel
Collection Name	Ethnology
Identifier	UA97-028-0001AB
Description	Caribou fur and wolf mukluk and leggings. Length 89 cm., Soles and sides of boot are composed of caribou with fur towards the inside. Lower legs are caribou with fur towards the outside. Upper legs and leggings are wolf with fur towards the outside. Along the top of the leggings is trimmed caribou with fur towards the outside. Blue (denim-like) textile is sewn around the leg opening with a red and black chord throughout, used to tighten the leg legging. A has one pom-pom, and B has two pom-poms. Bottom of boots have hide straps, back of which are dyed reddish . *Mabel Brown is the wife of Harry Brown, a trader in the Kobuk region. They have a daughter named May Brown.
Subject.Local	Ethnotechnology
Region	Northern Alaska
Time Period	1939 to 1959
Date.original	1945
Type	Image (Photographs) Physical Object
Ordering and Use	Terms of Copyright and Use: http://www.uaf.edu/museum/molinet/copyright.html
Holding Institution	UA Museum of the North, P.O. Box 756960, 907 Yukon Dr., Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6960 mailto:UA-museumlearn@alaska.edu
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