Moccasin

97-84-1556.1

From: United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Canadian River

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 97-84-1556.1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cheyenne (culture) | Arapaho
Provenience United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Canadian River
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Rawhide | Buckskin | Pigment | Bead
Description

One of a pair of man's moccasins with rawhide soles and buckskin uppers stained green. Beaded circumferal and ankle bands; instep and twin longitudinal stripes. Buckskin fringe attached to outer stripes. Long buckskin fringe knotted to back seam. Design: pipe (?), red, yellow, and dark blue on white ground. Apache borrowing.

Length 26.67 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-84-1556 - Old Museum Number | 17711 - ANSP Number | II 1036 - Gottschall Number

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