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Boots424/2 a-b

Pair of skin boots with skin soles and off-white and grey fur legs. Edged with red fabric at the rim through which a drawstring is strung, with red fabric at the ends. Cord is also strung through skin loops around the top edges of the sole.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait ?
Material
seal skin and fibre
Made in
Coppermine, Nunavut, Canada ? or Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Boots1337/1 a-b

Pair of moccasin-boots with brown rabbit fur trim around the upper and front edges. Floral beadwork in blue, orange, white, green and red. Tie closures on either side of the upper ankle.

Culture
Cree
Material
rawhide skin, glass, fibre and rabbit skin
Made in
Manitoba, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Boots1324/1 a-b

Pair of women's fur boots. Band of ecru-coloured material trimmed with red cloth and covered with multicoloured floral embroidery around top of boot. Soles and area around the bottom of the boots not covered with fur. Cord and skin ties attached at either side of the heel run across the front of the ankle.

Culture
Siberian ?
Material
reindeer skin ?, fibre and dye
Made in
Russia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Boots1039/1 a-b

Pair of boots with brown leather soles that have a piece of metal at the toe and the heel, and off-white wool uppers with leather at the heel and toe. Each has two fibre loops at the sides. Patched with pieces of red leather.

Culture
Russian ?
Material
wool fibre, leather skin, dye, metal and fibre
Made in
Russia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Boots1060/30 a-b

Pair of boots with dark brown leather soles and dark yellow leather uppsers. The boots are decorated with red leather geometric shapes with cutwork in slits and geometric shapes, and these pieces of leather are sewn onto the boot at the shin and top of the foot with green thread embroidery around the edges. Off-white fabric shows through the cutwork.

Culture
West African
Material
skin, fibre and dye
Made in
“Gambia” ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Miniature Boots1060/23 a-b

Pair of light brown miniature boots trimmed with brown cloth, each decorated with a tasseled red and grey string bow on the front.

Culture
Inuit
Material
skin ?, cotton fibre and fibre
Made in
Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Boots565/2 a-b

Pair of boots made of brown and white caribou fur. The soles are made of dehaired seal skin with upstanding sides with vertical crimps. Between the sole and the vamp a red dyed narrow strip of dehaired skin is inserted all around. The leg section consists of white caribou fur with vertical brown caribou fur panels and narrow strips of white and brown caribou fur on either side of the leg. On top of this a horizontal strip of wolverine with two wolverine tassels in the front and in the back is sewn. Above this and intricately decorated broad band of shaved white and brown caribou fur in a geometric pattern, and tufts of red cloth are attached. The top of the boots have a blue cloth casing through which a plaited cord of wool is strung. On either side of the foot a long strip of dehaired skin is attached into the seam of the sole.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
caribou skin, seal skin, wolverine skin, dye, wool fibre and caribou sinew
Made in
Nunavut, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Inner Boots565/1 a-b

Pair of inner stockings of caribou skin with the fur on the inside. The stockings reach to the knee and are higher in the front than in the back. The stockings consist of a piece of skin forming the sole, a vamp section and a large piece of skin that forms the leg section with a seam in the back of the leg.

Culture
Inuit: Inuinnait
Material
caribou skin and caribou sinew
Made in
Nunavut, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BootsNa997 a-b

Boots with hide soles, white canvas uppers with black side sections, brown fur trim around the calf and at the cuff, and hide thongs that cross around the back of the ankle to tie at the front. The vamp and upper border is embroidered with a multicoloured floral design. Each has an orange and yellow-braided yarn drawstring with brown, light purple and dark green yarn tassels.

Culture
Inuit
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre, skin, leather skin and dye
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Miniature BootsNa1072 a-b

Pair of miniature boots. Light brown sole stitched to brown upper with seam up one side. Two white thongs cross over the foot, wrap around the ankle, and tie. The white border around the top of each boot is decorated with black stitching, and has a red strip woven in.

Culture
Inuit
Material
cotton fibre, skin and dye
Made in
Kotzebue, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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