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Title: Descriptive booklet on the Alaska historical museum
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Alaska Historical Library and Museum Kashevaroff, Andrew P., b. 1863 Alaska Historical Association
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Publisher: Juneau, Alaska
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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44 TOTEM LORE OF THE ALASKA INDIANS Footwear Boots. Among- the Eskimos, boots, the mostcommon style of foot-wear are madewith hard-tanned, sealskin sole and topreaching just below the knee. The topsare generally of sealskin tanned withthe hair left on, or reindeer skin tannedin the same manner. The specimens in the case are madefrom reindeer skin. The uppers in onespecimen are made in strips of brownand dark hair. The middle of the boot running up and down and on the sideis ornamented with tanned buckskin invarious colors. The Eskimo also makeswater-proof boots of oil-tanned seal-skin. Socks and Boot-Pads. Socks of deer skin or sealskin withthe hair removed, reaching a littleabove the ankle are commonly worn inwinter. Woven grass socks are wornat all seasons.
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ALASKA HISTORICAL MUSEUM Other Specimens On the left side uf the balcony inwhich the above mentioned specimensappear, in the five cases arranged alongthe wall the implements used in artsand manufacture are displayed. Theycomprise ivory and bone working tools,stone implements, axes, adz2s. wedgesand mauls, womens knives and mensknives, bone bracelets, snow beaters,snares and traps, skin dressing toolsand many other implements in useby the Eskimo people. In the third case from the door, spec-imens representing the very ancientEskimo art, dug out below the layersof Kjokken Moddens (Kitcken Mid-dens) are displayed. In October of1913 a severe storm on the Bering Seaand the Arctic Ocean uncovered bigheaps in front of old village sites, con-sisting of teeth and bones of variousanimals. Amongst this heap magnifi-cent specimens of decorative art werefound in the underlayers of these de-posits. In this collection there are verywonderful pieces of ivory so old thatthey are not only petrified but

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