Beaded Moccasins
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- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0050 a,b
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded, Rocky Mountain style moccasins, cut from one piece of buckskin each, folded on foot's inside and seamed at outside and at heel. A fringe at ankle sewn to moccasin body and two eyelets in it for a single short thong tie. Heavy beading is a bright yellow ground with red and …
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 27.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded, Rocky Mountain style moccasins, cut from one piece of buckskin each, folded on foot's inside and seamed at outside and at heel. A fringe at ankle sewn to moccasin body and two eyelets in it for a single short thong tie. Heavy beading is a bright yellow ground with red and blue triangles on the vamps and completed around the ankle, bordered by a lazy stitch border of red and blue triangles. Tongues are added separately.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- footwear
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0050 a,b
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