Bearded Slave [SEP] material used
Bearded Slave
The Bearded Slave (Italian: "Schiavo barbuto") is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo datable to around 1525–1530 and kept in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. It forms part of the series of "unfinished" Prigioni intended for the Tomb of Pope Julius II.
History.
It seems that, from the first design of the Tomb of Pope Julius II (1505), a series of "Prigioni" was planned for the bottom level of the mausoleum, a series of statues larger than life size
in Unaliq-Pastuliq dialect) a special oversole of skin boot used to prevent slipping on ice. Yup'ik soles are traditionally made of bearded seal skin which is usually chewed to make it moldable. The sealskin materials used for skinboot soles are "nat'rarkaq" (in Yup'ik) "sole material for skin boots, made from the tanned skin of the bearded seal", "atungagkar" (in Cup'ig) "sealskin material to be used for making bootsoles", "arinacir(ar)" (in Cup'ig) "aged sealskin used