moccasins
moccasins
moccasins
Baby or child's moccasins. Haudenosaunee.
Hodenosaunee
Created with information from the British Museum accession record and observations made by the GRASAC research team.
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Commercially tanned hide. Brown velvet vamp and cuff. Beads pink, transluscent red, transluscent yellow, light orange, light blue, medium blue, green, white transluscent, transluscent grey. Red cotton tape edging cuff.
Floral motif with monochromatic shading on vamp. Cuff has floral motif and leafy branch design.
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, moccasins. Currently in the British Museum, Am1929,1216.19. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 24611.
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).