Moccasins

Moccasins

Moccasins

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Introduction

Haudenosaunee-style hide moccasins with single-seam (front and back) and folded over cuffs. Decorated with curvilinear and abstract floral design in porcupine quillwork embroidery on vamp and cuffs and trimmed with glass beads on edge of cuffs.

Nation of Maker: Seneca
Nation of Origin

style

Date Made or Date Range: early 19th c ?
Materials

Leather, quills (white, blue and red), silk ribbon, beads

Techniques or Format

Each made of single piece of leather, with cuffs that have been folded over. Single seam on the top, single seam at the heel. Plaited quillwork ornaments top seam in zigzag pattern. Quills in stingle stitch border the plaited quillwork

Motifs and Patterns

Curvilinear/double curve motif at cuffs with 3-lobed possibly floral motifs above. Wavy lines on moccasin top

Dimensions: 6.985 × 9.525 × 26.035 cm
Condition: very good
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catalog data

Current Location: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E26326
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1947
GKS Reference Number: 45066
Record Creation Context

Visit to Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA) of Wahsontiio Cross and Alexandra Nahwegahbow, assisted by Eric Wohlin on 10 August 2015.

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