Miniature Moccasins
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- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- skin; quill; fibre; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0159 a,b
- Description
- A pair of miniature moccasins of tan coloured buckskin with tall ankle flaps. Soles and uppers of one piece gathered and stitches to U-shaped vamp extending into rounded tongue, ankle flap bound at edges and where sewn to foot with red fabric, and lined with stiff paper. Quill design worked in purp…
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- Title
- Miniature Moccasins
- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- skin; quill; fibre; paper
- Dimensions
- 4.2 x 2.4 x 5.6 cm
- Description
- A pair of miniature moccasins of tan coloured buckskin with tall ankle flaps. Soles and uppers of one piece gathered and stitches to U-shaped vamp extending into rounded tongue, ankle flap bound at edges and where sewn to foot with red fabric, and lined with stiff paper. Quill design worked in purple on toe, and blue, yellow and purple on ankle flap in simple petal motif.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- miniatures
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 107.01.0159 a,b
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