Object Details
- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq
- Artist/Maker
- Esther Obruk, Iñupiaq, 1917-1997
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Association, Inc. (Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Clearing House/Alaska Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative/ANAC Association, Inc.), 1937-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from Alaska Native Arts and Crafts (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1983; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Date created
- 1983
- Catalog Number
- 25/5398
- Barcode
- 255398.000
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Footwear
- Object Name
- Mukluks
- Media/Materials
- Sealskin/fur, caribou hide/skin, wool felt, cotton cloth, yarn, glass bead/beads
- Techniques
- Sewn, overlay beadwork, braided
- Dimensions
- 38.4 x 33.5 x 11.7 cm
- Place
- Shishmaref; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Iñupiaq
- Clothing/Garments: Footwear
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_271263
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws67ac0be95-9bfc-4a23-9924-04b9a1548511
