Description (Labels & Markings)
Paper label glued to one sole reads: '1893-45 Skin shoes. Eskimo. Col. R. T. Caldwell M.A.' (paper label) 'Female Arctic Case #13'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Pair of shoes.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Black, Lydia Aleut Art. Anchorage, Alaska, 1982: 154-163.

Event Date 1982
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Displayed in case 9, CUMAA anthropology galleries, until on 9 July 1986.
Event Date 9/7/1986
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Hickman, Pat. (1987). Innerskins/Outerskins: Gut and Fishskins. San Francisco: San Francisco Craft and Folk Museum
Event Date 1987
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Shoes, one pair. Each is made from five pieces of skin (sea mammal intestine?). One main piece forms the sole with the edges turned over the sides of the foot and crimped around the toes and at the heel. A U-shaped piece of same forms the upper foot; three rectangular pieces of same are sewn around ankles. Loop is sewn into seam at each side of ankles. Two parallel rows of equidistantly spaced knots of dark brown sinew are sewn around edge of vamp on one; one full row and a partial row are sewn to other. Structural sewing is with sinew.
Event Date 6/2004
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Judy Hall, Curator of Eastern Woodlands and Arctic Ethnology, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada identified this as 'Unangan (Aleut) type'
Event Date 3/2005
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Original catalogue card: 'The Arctic, Esquimaux Skin Upper Dress (A), and pairs of shoes (B) and Trousers and Two Pairs of Shoes (D,E; F; G). Skin is probably seal intestine. It has been suggested this could be gut.'
Event Date 4/2005
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1655 | Repack
Event Date 10/8/2018
Author: Kirstie Williams

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1656 | Repack
Event Date 10/8/2018
Author: Kirstie Williams

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2024.6105 | Freezing
Event Date 28/11/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan

Description (Physical description)
A pair of shoes made from seal intestine. Each shoes is made of multiple pieces sewn together. .B1: The front panel is decorated with two rows of small black equally spaced knots around edge of vamp; one full row and a partial row. Traces of blue pigment on the front. B.2: the front panel is decorated with two full rows of black equally spaced sinew knots. Structural sewing is with sinew
Event Date 6/11/2024
Author: Diana Serediuc

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Cultural Group field previously read 'Eskimo' based on the accession register. 'Inuit' was added at an unknown time. Following advice from a visiting researcher in 2005 'Unangan (Aleut) type' was added. This field was updated again in 2024 to include the names used in Lincoln, A., Cooper, J., and Loovers, J. P. L. (2020) Arctic: Culture and Climate. London: Thames and Hudson and The British Museum, pp.10-11.
Event Date 15/8/2024
Author: Kirsty Kernohan