Beaded Moccasins
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- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0061 a,b
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded Rocky Mountain style moccasins, cut from single piece of leather, seamed at other edge. Tongue also in pattern, and an ankle piece added of lighting leather. Long ties of single thongs gathering at the ankle. Bead pattern is of a white ground with small stepped square in bl…
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 10.5 x 27.3 cm
- Description
- A pair of heavily beaded Rocky Mountain style moccasins, cut from single piece of leather, seamed at other edge. Tongue also in pattern, and an ankle piece added of lighting leather. Long ties of single thongs gathering at the ankle. Bead pattern is of a white ground with small stepped square in blue, brass, and indigo on the vamps. Borders of white in lazy stitch with small stepped squares.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- footwear
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0061 a,b
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