Moccasin
97-84-1551.2
From: United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Canadian River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-84-1551.2 |
| 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 | Hide | Buckskin | Pigment | Bead | Tin |
| Description | One of a pair of man's moccasins with rawhide soles and buckskin uppers, stained yellow. Tongue not separate, but cut with combination of Y and T types. Beaded circumferal and ankle bands and twin longitudinal stripes formed by small squares set cornerwise. Between the stripes the buckskin is painted purple and short buckskin thongs drawn through and strung with tinklers to form a fringe along outer side of moccasins. Long buckskin fringe tied to back seam, Apache borrowing: see note to 97-84-1531. Light and dark blue, red, and white beads. |
| Length | 26.04 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-84-1551 - Old Museum Number | 17718 - ANSP Number | I 1914 - Gottschall Number |
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