Moccasin
| Object Number: | 97-84-1531.2 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Length: | 13.34 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number: | L-84-1531 - Old Museum Number 17678 - ANSP Number II 1002 - Gottschall Number |
Description
One of a pair of child's moccasins with a rawhide sole and a buckskin upper stained yellow. Beaded circumferal band, instep and two longitudinal stripes with space between painted red. Designs bird, mammal and pipe; dark blue on white ground. The twin longitudinal stripes from instep to toes with elongated painted V-strip between show borrowing from Apache moccasin which has the V-tongue thus inserted v.
Bibliography:
| [Book] Gottschall, Amos H. 1909. Priced and Descriptive Catalogue of the Utensils, Implements, Weapons, Ornaments, Etc., of the Indians, Mound Builders, Cliff Dwellers: Typical Collections No. 2.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: II 1002 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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