Moccasin

45-15-442A

From: United States of America | Montana

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-442A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Piegan | Blackfeet
Provenience United States of America | Montana
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buffalo Skin | Glass | Flannel | Canvas
Technique Tanned | Beaded
Iconography Flower
Description

Folded and sewed around toe and along outer side of foot. T-heel seam, parallel cut for tongue, beaded disk below broad stripe on instep. Four "petaled" black and red "flower" on blue ground edged in white. Red flannel ankle facing. Pinked (?), broad canvas shank strip.

Length 27.8 cm
Width 12.7 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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