moccasins

moccasins

moccasins

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Introduction

moccasins, collected by Edward Sapir, Onkwehonwe (Iroquois, Hodenosaunee), Caughnawaga, 1800s- 1911.

Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
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museum documentation

Place of Origin: Cape Giradeau, MO
Date Made or Date Range: 1800s to 1911
Materials

Pair of deer moccasins, lined with white cotton cloth. Vamp is commercial leather covered with navy sailcloth. Sewing is with commericial thread. Ankle covering is dark brown velvet, with zig-zag trim of white and translucent green beads, ties of red binding tape sewn onto velvet. Vamp has flower design on paper form, design primarliy tansparent beads, with tranlucent green, blue, red, and gold beads and opague white and pink beads, plus spangles. Vamp trimmed with white beads, in pair of rows and zig-zag row. T-seam at heel.

Dimensions: 23.5 × 11.8 × 0 cm
Condition: good
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museum documentation

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-I-134 a,b
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1911
GKS Reference Number: 24722
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Approximate Place of Origin

45.7171, -81.6848