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Women’s footwear, part of a “converted gender” shaman’s costume. Chukchee

Title:

Women’s footwear, part of a “converted gender” shaman’s costume

Ethnic groups:

Chukchee

Territory:

Chukot Peninsula, Far East, Primorsky Oblast, Anadyr Krai

Date:

early 20th century

Collectors-person:
Sokolnikov Nikolai P.
Rubrics:

Costume

Material:

Leather (larga seal); fur: natural: leg skin (reindeer); leather: natural leather: suede: skin suede (reindeer); threads: animal: wool; leather: natural leather: hide; herbaceous plants: plants

Number:

РЭМ 2035-45/1

Annotation:

Women’s footwear with knee-high tops is made of brown short-piled deer leg skin, and the sole, of bearded seal skin, fur inside. The top’s upper part is decorated with fur mosaic of alternating horizontal strips of white and brown deer leg skin with vertical twin strips of red woolen threads. Small inserts of such fur mosaic are arranged on the foot’s side. Abstract by V.V. Gorbacheva

Albums:
Sacral world of the Arctic
Rus:
Обувь женская – часть костюма шамана «превращённого пола». Чукчи