moccasins
moccasins
moccasins
Moccasins decorated with beadwork. Haudenosaunee.
This style of moccasin and beadwork is typical of the Haudenosaunee.
Created with information from the British Museum accession record and observations made by the GRASAC research team.
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Orange-brown commercially tanned hide, black velvet on the cuffs, thin red woolen tape as edging on vamp, red cotton tape edging on the top of cuffs, small seed beads in greasy turquoise, greasy yellow, dusty rose, opaque white, light blue, yellow, light green, translucent red, transluscent green, transluscent gold, transluscent light blue, transluscent pale violet, vamp is a course indigo stroud
Vamp overlay the puckered toe, t-heel seam, linear beadwork and some raised beadwork, twisted edging beadwork
Vamp: raised circle filled with radiating lines from a red centre, surrrounded by scalloped line of twisted 2 string beads above that is a pair of 3 semi-circles above that is a 4 lobed floral motif done in raised beadwork surrounded with a border cuff: edged in 2 rows of zig zags separated by parallel white lines
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, moccasins. Currently in the British Museum, Am1921,1014.99. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25555.
This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), John Borrows (JB), Lindsay Borrows (LB), Darlene Johnston (DJ), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Bruce Morito (BM), Ruth Phillips (RP), Cory Willmott (CW).