Moccasin
97-84-1531.1
From: United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Canadian River
Curatorial Section: American
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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