Moccasin

97-84-1531.1

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

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 97-84-1531.1
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 child's moccasins with a rawhide sole and a buckskin upper stained yellow. Beaded circumferal band, instep and two longitudinal stripes with space between painted red. Designs bird, mammal and pipe; dark blue on white ground. The twin longitudinal stripes from instep to toes with elongated painted V-strip between show borrowing from Apache moccasin which has the V-tongue thus inserted v.

Length 13.34 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-84-1531 - Old Museum Number | 17678 - ANSP Number | II 1002 - Gottschall Number

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