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Alaska Eskimo Footwear celebrates the incredible beauty and spiritual significance of the shoes and boots worn by Alaska Native peoples. Stunning photography brings the harsh and striking environment of the North alive and demonstrates how essential footwear was to native survival, while Eskimo seamstresses, dancers, and hunters explain the symbolic meaning of their traditional patterns and decorative details. This full-color volume features photographs from museum collections in Canada, the United States, and Russia, as contributors from each major Alaska Eskimo group—Inupiaq, Yup’ik, Alutiiq, and St. Lawrence Islander—discuss skin preparation, boot construction, and decoration. A tribute to exquisite art and the women who practice it, Alaska Eskimo Footwear brings the beauty of the North—and its traditional wares—to life.
Price: £27.95
Pages: 176
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Imprint: University of Alaska Press
Publication Date:
15 June 2007
Trim Size: 11.00 X 8.50 in
ISBN: 9781602230064
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Jill Oakes teaches in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba. Rick Riewe is professor of zoology at the University of Manitoba, where he teaches ecology, resource management, and biology. With funding from the Bata Shoe Museum, he and his wife Jill Oakes have lived and studied with the Native peoples of Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Fennoscandia, and Greenland.
Foreword by Sonja Bata
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
1 Introduction
2 Women's Tools and Skin Preparation
3 The Inupiat of the Northwest Coast
4 Kotzebue Sound Inupiat
5 Bering Sea Inupiat and Yupiit
6 Nunivak Island, Nelson Island, and Central Alaska Yupiit
7 St. Lawrence Island Yupiit
8 Aleutian Islanders and North Pacific Alutiit
Appendix I Alaska Eskimo and Aleut Languages
Appendix II Identifying Alaska Eskimo Footwear
Appendix III Glossary
References
Index