Commercially tanned dark brown hide, red cotton tape binding, beads are white, transluscent grey, red, pink, green, light blue and medium blue, polished cotton as a lining, vamp is a black velvet

Puckered toe with a vamp overlapping the puckers, separate one piece unfolded stand up cuff, t-heel seam

Floral motifs, monochromatic shading, green stem with leaves, double parallel of lines of white around vamp, (edging stitch) white beads sewn into the puckers on the outer border, zig zag of light blue beads and double parallel line of white beads on cuff

Unknown Haudenosaunee artist, moccasins. Currently in the British Museum, Am.2591.a-b. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25883.

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).