Beaded Moccasins
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- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0051 a,b
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded moccasins cut from one piece of buckskin shaped to the foot and seamed to a second piece of buckskin forming the sole. Uppers are completely beaded with white background containing a single red stepped chevron outlined in dark blue on the toe, and red and dark blue stepped …
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 25.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded moccasins cut from one piece of buckskin shaped to the foot and seamed to a second piece of buckskin forming the sole. Uppers are completely beaded with white background containing a single red stepped chevron outlined in dark blue on the toe, and red and dark blue stepped diagonal stripes spaced around sides and heel. Light blue band around base of moccasin at sole contains double red chevrons outlined in dark blue spaced evenly around, and a similar narrow light blue band across instep. Large buckskin ankle flap notched along edge, long narrow rectangular tongue, and long thin buckskin ties.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- footwear
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0051 a,b
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