Boots

A pair of child’s scraped seal skin boots, brown and off-white in colour. The high white soles are pleated around heel and toe, and have white skin straps which tie around ankles and across feet. Wide decorative bands of white skin with a double row of stitching, plus a zigzag piece of brown skin, trim the top of the boots. Collected by Inspector C.W. West of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police during his travels in the Athabasca and Mackenzie River district c. 1901-1907.