Pair of snow boots - Artifacts
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Description
Pair of adult's snow boots (yuki-gutsu)
Woven of cattails with vertical reeds around ankle with twined cattails near bottom and 3 rows of red sisal twining, plain weave toe with decorative center seam, two soles are waraji style, bottom sole woven of young bamboo shoot skins (takenoko-no-kawa); brownish paper insoles; plain red cotton trim around upper edge (1.375" wide).
Object ID
1996.010.323