Beaded Moccasins
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- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0041 a,b
- Description
- A pair of small, child's moccasins, each made from a piece of hide folded over and seamed at outer side and up at heel, tongue part of body. Cuffed with sewn on piece of buckskin. Simple floral motif in beadwork on vamps, two blossoms in red and blue outlined in white beads, and a lower pair of blo…
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 12.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of small, child's moccasins, each made from a piece of hide folded over and seamed at outer side and up at heel, tongue part of body. Cuffed with sewn on piece of buckskin. Simple floral motif in beadwork on vamps, two blossoms in red and blue outlined in white beads, and a lower pair of blossoms in brown outlined in blue. Trim of cuff decorated with alternate blue and red beads, and tongue outlined in yellow. Tie for each moccasin is threaded under cuff and emerges by side of tongue at edge of cuff.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- children
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0041 a,b
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