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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
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Men's haired seal skin boots made by Elma Innutuinak.
Pelly Bay, 1989
BSM S90.149
Contemporary Netsilik hunters often wear caribou skin parkas with a cloth covering during extreme cold.
Photo by David F. Pelly
Netsilik Inuit
Kamiks of the Netsilik Inuit
In addition to seal and caribou skin, Netsilik Inuit use other materials such as dog skin, commercially tanned skin and wool stroud for footwear. They are recognizable because the soles may be pleated or flat. Flat soles are often double-layered, one of which is usually sealskin. Haired seal skin boots are often made with shaved bearded seal skin and a vamp of bleached or shaved ringed seal skin. The hair direction and any decoration flows horizontally on women's boots and vertically on men's boots. Caribou skin boots are made from the leg skins and have soles made from caribou bull skin or bearded seal skin.
