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Boots:
An Inuit Women's Art - Perfect
Pair:
Wedding Traditions from Around the World - Tradition
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Northern Athapaskan Footwear - Chronicles of Riches
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- Appeasing the Spirits
- Footsteps on the Sacred Earth
- Paduka
- Japanese Footgear
- Whats their line?
- Heights of Fashion
- New! Resources recommended by Curriculum Services Canada
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- Our
Boots:
An Inuit Women's Art - Perfect
Pair:
Wedding Traditions from Around the World - Tradition
and Innovation:
Northern Athapaskan Footwear - Chronicles of Riches
- Paths Across The Plains
- Appeasing the Spirits
- Footsteps on the Sacred Earth
- Paduka
- Japanese Footgear
- Whats their line?
- Heights of Fashion
- New! Resources recommended by Curriculum Services Canada
- Our
Boots:
Esquimaux Indians of the Coast of Labrador. Communicated by a Moravian Missionary, 1812.
Hal Roth Photography, Toronto.
© Bata Shoe Museum, BSM P83.222
Qapik Attagutsiak on her porch with a spotted sealskin.
© Photograph by Jill Oakes.
North America
Canadian Arctic
Some of the most important treasures held by the Museum are the words and images of contemporary women who continue to craft traditional footwear. By collecting both the footwear and the voices of these women the Museum strives to preserve not only artefacts, the concepts, motivations and intentions of the makers. Research of this kind in the Canadian Arctic inspired one of the first major exhibitions and a subsequent publication, Our Boots, an Inuit Women's Art, in 1996.
