This boot with glass-beaded cuffs is made by the Inuvialuit-Eskimo tribe of the most north-eastern part of Alaska.

The Canadian Copper-Inuit, as well as the Alaska Inuipat and Yuit tribes, also make boots of cloth, caribou-, seal-, or other skin, like polar bear, with hard pre-formed boat-shaped pleated sealskin soles. The skins most often used by tribes to make boots however, are seal and caribou.

Sealskin is water-resistant, making it ideal for boots worn in wet conditions. Animal skin in general is porous and allows body vapours to escape, reducing the amount of moisture collected inside boots.