Moccasin

45-15-406A

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-406A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Rawhide | Buffalo Skin | Quill | Glass
Technique Beaded
Description

Rawhide sole, one piece buffalo hide upper, crossed by 16 lines of quilling. Red broken by green to form simulated instep strip, two lines of red quill extending to heel and with quilled stars above. Sewed-on triangular tongue with red and white beaded end, trailers.

Length 27.3 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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