Moccasin

97-84-1554.2

From: United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Canadian River

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 97-84-1554.2
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cheyenne (culture) | Arapaho
Provenience United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Canadian River
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Rawhide | Buckskin | Pigment | Bead
Description

One of a pair of man's moccasins with rawhide soles and buckskin uppers, stained yellow. T-cut with forked tongue. Beaded circumferal and ankle bands; instep and twin longitudinal stripes with attached buckskin fringe on outer side. Long buckskin fringe at back seam. Design: tipis along river; person(?) and stars. Red, green, light blue, yellow, and black on white. Apache borrowing.

Length 26.67 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-84-1554 - Old Museum Number | 17723 - ANSP Number | I 1919 - Gottschall Number

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