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Moccasin

Object Number:45-15-421A
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Arapaho
Provenience: Great Plains (Plain)
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Rawhide
Buckskin
Glass
Technique:Beaded
Iconography:Centipede
Length: 18.11 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

Description

Child's moccasin. Rawhide sole, one piece buckskin upper, T-cut, solidly beaded. Two green pointed fields bearing white and red centipede design. Wide longitudinal and marginal bands, white and navy, red and green figure, diamond with attached triangles, sewed-on tongue, trailer.

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