Object Number | 45-15-447B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Blackfeet |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area (uncertain) |
Section | American |
Materials | Rawhide | Buckskin (uncertain) | Moose Skin (uncertain) | Fiber | Glass |
Technique | Beaded | Smoked | Stained |
Description | Buckskin or mooseskin moccasin. Smoke-tanned and stained red. Sole and upper in one piece. T-heel seam with a short "trailer" at each end. T-cut instep and sewed-on oblong tongue. Top outer side and heel seam solidly beaded in block with a triangular and twisted design with red, yellow, green, and four shades of blue in seed and pony beads. Seam dotted with white beads. |
Height | 13.5 cm |
Length | 25.5 cm |
Width | 12 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
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