Fish skin boots 1

Fish skin boots from the Yukon delta, with white patches where the fins had been. Frank Andrew said: “I never took off my fish skin boots during winter, and my peers were probably the same way.”

W. D. Johns, 1900, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle 7142 http://www.yupikscience.org/5fishcamp/5-2.html

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