Beaded Moccasins
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- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0036 a,b
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded Rocky Mountain style moccasins, each made from a single piece of hide, folded at the instep and felled and seamed on the foot's outside. Cuff band at the ankle sewn on, as is vamp at arch with tongue, fringed at heel. Bead pattern in blue, yellow, vermilion and black is a r…
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded Rocky Mountain style moccasins, each made from a single piece of hide, folded at the instep and felled and seamed on the foot's outside. Cuff band at the ankle sewn on, as is vamp at arch with tongue, fringed at heel. Bead pattern in blue, yellow, vermilion and black is a rectangle with a double pointed arrow through it, triangles extruding from top and bottom, and a small diamond pattern at the toe. Edge of cuff, and outline of tongue are in blue, orange, white, red, black and yellow beads.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- footwear
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0036 a,b
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