Moccasin

Moccasin

Moccasin

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Introduction

Haudenosaunee beaded moccasin made of smoked hide, wool stroud, cotton tape with abstracted floral beadwork embroidered on vamp. Made prior to 1872.

Place of Origin: Ontario or Manitoba, CAN
Date Made or Date Range: before 1872
Materials

White, iridescent white, light blue, pink,red and gold colored glass beads; smoked hide, blue wool cloth, velvet vamp, red cotton(?) ribbon for tie, red cotton tape, tan colored cotton

Techniques or Format

Hide moccasin lined with tan colored cotton fabric, with inset velvet vamp ornamented with beadwork and bound with red cotton tape. Cuffs made of blue wool cloth bound with red tape and beads along the tape edge. Cuffs to do not fold. Red ribbon tie sewn to the top corners of the cuffs to cross above the ankle

Motifs and Patterns

stylized symmetrical floral/botanical design

Other Notes

only one moccasin (not a complete pair)

Dimensions: 23 × 10 × 0.4 cm
Condition: hole in the toe, beads missing on vamp and cotton tape worn in some spots
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

catalog data: collected between 1872-1902 by Mr. Ernest T. Jackson; donated to museum in 1940.

Current Location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 40-39-10/19327
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1940
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Mr. Ernest T. Jackson donated to museum
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1872-1902
Previous Collectors: Ernest T. Jackson
Collection Narratives and Histories

collected between 1872-1902; donated to museum in 1940.

GKS Reference Number: 45097
Record Creation Context

Visit to Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) of Wahsontiio Cross and Alexandra Nahwegahbow, assisted by Meredith Vasta on 11-12 August 2015.

Approximate Place of Origin

45.8, -83.9

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