moccasins

moccasins

moccasins

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Introduction

Moccasins decorated with beadwork. Haudenosaunee.

Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Nation of Origin

This style of moccasin and beadwork is typical of the Haudenosaunee.

Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Created with information from the British Museum accession record and observations made by the GRASAC research team.

Materials

Orange-brown commercially tanned hide, black velvet on the cuffs, thin red woolen tape as edging on vamp, red cotton tape edging on the top of cuffs, small seed beads in greasy turquoise, greasy yellow, dusty rose, opaque white, light blue, yellow, light green, translucent red, transluscent green, transluscent gold, transluscent light blue, transluscent pale violet, vamp is a course indigo stroud

Techniques or Format

Vamp overlay the puckered toe, t-heel seam, linear beadwork and some raised beadwork, twisted edging beadwork

Motifs and Patterns

Vamp: raised circle filled with radiating lines from a red centre, surrrounded by scalloped line of twisted 2 string beads above that is a pair of 3 semi-circles above that is a 4 lobed floral motif done in raised beadwork surrounded with a border cuff: edged in 2 rows of zig zags separated by parallel white lines

Dimensions: 26 × 9 × 7.5 cm
Condition: Fair.
Current Location: British Museum, London, UK
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Am1921,1014.89.a-b
GKS Reference Number: 25555
How to Cite this Item

Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, moccasins. Currently in the British Museum, Am1921,1014.99. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25555.

Record Creation Context

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).

Record Creation Notes/Observations

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).

Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184