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moccasins
moccasins
moccasins
Puckered toe moccasins with floral beadwork on vamps. Haudenosaunee.
This style of moccasin and beadwork is typical of the Haudenosaunee.
Created with information from the British Museum accession record and observations made by the GRASAC research team.
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Dark brown thick hide is shiny side out (probably commercially tanned hide), cuff and vamp is black velvet, black velvet edging, black velvet ribbon ties, lined beige cotton, large seed beads in white, transluscent grey, transluscent green, transluscent red, transluscent yellow, translucent blue, tubular glass beads in dark grey, paper pattern
Vamp overlayed a puckered toe, folded cuff sewn on separately, t-heel seam, black velvet ties are tied in a bow, raised beadwork
Motif is either floral or butterfly, cuff is edged with a double parallel lines of white and transluscent grey, vamp is edged with vertical lines of 3 beads followed by 2 parallel lines
Provenance
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, moccasins. Currently in the British Museum, Am1981,Q.1949.a-b. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25344.
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).