Moccasin

45-15-416B

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 45-15-416B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Arapaho (uncertain) | Sioux (uncertain)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Rawhide | Elkskin (uncertain) | Pigment | Glass
Technique Stained | Beaded
Description

Child's moccasins. Rawhide sole, elk-skin one piece upper, with heel-seams and V cut. Stained yellow, beaded in two fields of blue blocks irregular checkered pattern. Instep band, median bar and circumferal band, red-yellow-dark blue geometric designs on white ground, sinew sewn.

Length 15.24 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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