Beaded Moccasins
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- Date
- 1945 â 1955
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0062 a,b
- Description
- A pair of large hand made buckskin moccasins heavily beaded across toe and along outside of foot. Beadwork orange background with motif at centre of toe of large green diamond shape outlined with red orange and resting on a light blue triangle outlined with dark blue at each point of the diamond. TâĤ
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- Title
- Beaded Moccasins
- Date
- 1945 â 1955
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 27.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of large hand made buckskin moccasins heavily beaded across toe and along outside of foot. Beadwork orange background with motif at centre of toe of large green diamond shape outlined with red orange and resting on a light blue triangle outlined with dark blue at each point of the diamond. This motif is repeated on the side of the heel. Light blue band around toe near sole contains small green and red-orange squares spaced along it. Large ankle flap, and long narrow tongue with long thin thongs threaded through moccasin at each side of the tongue and through the tongue, edges of ankle flap notched, small fringe at bottom of heel.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- footwear
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.03.0062 a,b
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