Beaded Moccasins
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- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0048 a,b
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded moccasins cut from one piece of buckskin shaped to the foot and seamed along outer sole and up heel. Completely beaded across toe and instep with beads continuing along outside to heel. Blue background with pink diamond containing green square with smaller white diamond a…
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 12.0 x 26.5 cm
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded moccasins cut from one piece of buckskin shaped to the foot and seamed along outer sole and up heel. Completely beaded across toe and instep with beads continuing along outside to heel. Blue background with pink diamond containing green square with smaller white diamond at centre, on toe and at side, with small red crosses having green centres in a row along each side. Border around sole worked in lazy stitch on same blue background with diagonal pink and black lines alternated with white bars. Large ankle flap with long narrow rectangular tongue and long buckskin ties, small fringe at heel base.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- footwear
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0048 a,b
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