Beaded Moccasins
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- Date
- 1930 â 1940
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0035 a,b
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded buckskin moccasins with large ankle flap and narrow tongue. Entire toe and outside of foot covered with beading. Blue background with single green stepped diamond at centre of toe outlined with red-orange squares, then white squares, and hanging from a light blue stepped tâĤ
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1930 â 1940
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded buckskin moccasins with large ankle flap and narrow tongue. Entire toe and outside of foot covered with beading. Blue background with single green stepped diamond at centre of toe outlined with red-orange squares, then white squares, and hanging from a light blue stepped triangle outlined with red orange squares, then white squares. This diamond, flanked by the triangle, is repeated again on the outer side of the heel. The beadwork is trimmed around the sole edge with a checkered band of red orange and light blue squares. Long buckskin thongs are threaded through slits in the moccasin on either side of the tongue, and on one moccasin through slits in the tongue as well.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- footwear
- Dan Wildman
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0035 a,b
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