Beaded Moccasins
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- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0030 a,b
- Description
- A pair of medium topped buckskin moccasins, Rocky Mountain style, each cut from a single piece of hide, folded over, felled and seamed on outside edge, upper flaps and tongues. Bead decoration of stylized flowers, one in rosette form on arch in red and blue with green leaves, one in bud form in yel…
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 11. x 24. cm
- Description
- A pair of medium topped buckskin moccasins, Rocky Mountain style, each cut from a single piece of hide, folded over, felled and seamed on outside edge, upper flaps and tongues. Bead decoration of stylized flowers, one in rosette form on arch in red and blue with green leaves, one in bud form in yellow and blue over the big toe, lacey stem running along outer edge in white and red with another blue flower at ankle, and bud in yellow and green at back of heel.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- footwear
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0030 a,b
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