Chronicles of Riches: Treasures of the Bata Shoe Museum
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Behind the Scenes

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Diane Aulyie with ulus made by her father John Aulyie, 1989. Unalakleet, Alaska.
© Photograph by Jill Oakes

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Rena Kuzuguk with beaded boot decorations, 1989.
© Photograph by Rick Riewe

North America

Alaska

The Bata Shoe Museum sponsored a field trip to Alaska in 1989 and the research resulted in the acquisition of numerous artefacts as well as the major exhibition, Appeasing the Spirits: Alaskan Coastal Peoples. The exhibition was curated in conjunction with the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The attendant publication was published by University of Alaska Press.

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Short dehaired reindeer skin boots with reindeer hair embroidery.

Woven grass socks with a fine imbricate design in form of small crosses and squares of black thread.

Ulu with rusted blade, ivory handle with circle and dot motif.

Needle cases decorated with beads and scrapers and ulus of considerable antiquity.

Bearded seal skin soles with the hair rubbed off.