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Moccasin

Object Number:45-15-418A
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Arapaho
Provenience: Great Plains (Plain)
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Parfleche
Buckskin
Glass
Technique:Painted
Beaded
Length: 27.3 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

Description

Sole cut from painted parfleche, one piece buckskin upper, T-cut. Beaded in space between pattern, two points filled with checkered pattern of green blocks with diagonal band of three rows of blocks, red and light blue. Red space and broad moccasin border, white with diamond figures with mallet-like ends, green checkered pattern and white band extending to heel stripe, sewed-on tongue.

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