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- Date
- 1900 – 1913
- Material
- skin; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1016
- Description
- Conrad Kain wore on 1913 first ascent Mount Robson, sturdy, thick, leather boot heel, tapering slightly at bottom, studded by 2 rows of .5 cm diameter nailheads around heel edge, layers of leather beginning to separate, bottom layer cracked and shrunken at centre, bent ends of nails flattened again…
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- Title
- Boot Heel
- Date
- 1900 – 1913
- Material
- skin; metal
- Dimensions
- 3.0 x 6.7 x 7.8 cm
- Description
- Conrad Kain wore on 1913 first ascent Mount Robson, sturdy, thick, leather boot heel, tapering slightly at bottom, studded by 2 rows of .5 cm diameter nailheads around heel edge, layers of leather beginning to separate, bottom layer cracked and shrunken at centre, bent ends of nails flattened against top of heel.
- Subject
- sports
- climbing
- Conrad Kain
- Mount Robson
- Credit
- Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Philadelphia, USA, 1972
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.1016
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