moccasins
moccasins
moccasins
Moccasins.
Read More About This Relative
Orange-brown commercially tanned hide, brown velvet on vamp and cuff, paper pattern behind vamp, red rick-rack on edge of vamp, red cotton tape edging on cuff, polished cotton lining, sequins, small (white, yellow and green) and medium sized beads in opaque blue and light blue, jade green, yellow, white, pink, transluscent red, yellow, grey (iridescent)
Separate sewn on cuff, vamp overlay puckered toe, t-heel seam
Vamp is floral motif (may look like feathers) with mono chromatic shading with a few sequins, edged with double parallel lines. Cuff: 2 parallel zig zag lines separated by double parallel lines
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown artist, moccasins. Currently in the British Museum, Am.2592.a-b . Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 27208.
43.0703, -80.1184
Possibly Anishinaabe or Haudenosaunee based on style -AE