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The shoe is carefully sewn together from several pieces of salmon skin.
sewn together. One part was finely pleated with a thread to give the shoe a better fit.
to give the shoe a better fit. Loops are attached to the upper edge of the shoe part through
through which a cord could be pulled to tie the shoe. The mid-height shaft
is made of sealskin with the fur facing inwards and edged with blue cotton fabric along the upper edge.
blue cotton fabric along the upper edge. As the salmon skin with its scaly structure gave good grip on the ice
on the ice, but was so thin that it hardly insulated against the cold, footlets were worn underneath (cf.
(cf. inv. nos. 25336, 25337) made of raffia were worn underneath. Due to the thin leather, such
shoes usually only lasted one winter.
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