Moccasins

Museum number:
2-5581a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21025581a@2cb
Alternate number:
3747 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Description:
Pair, buckskin; geometric design in red and blue on white ground; velvet cloth strip and ribbon edging at ankle flap.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Materials:
Buckskin
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Moccasins
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
Woman's... for dancing ceremonies. Prob. ass. w/Motoki Society headdress (John Hellson, 1971). Probably worn with 2-5579, 5580, 5582. According to Adolf Hungry Wolf (Blood, Alberta, Canada, 1975) these moccasins (women's) are simply womans apparal and
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 25 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-4382 Exhibited: "UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-5581a,b, described as Pair, buckskin; geometric design in red and blue on white ground; velvet cloth strip and ribbon edging at ankle flap.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-5581a,b, described as Pair, buckskin; geometric design in red and blue on white ground; velvet cloth strip and ribbon edging at ankle flap.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-5581a,b, described as Pair, buckskin; geometric design in red and blue on white ground; velvet cloth strip and ribbon edging at ankle flap.

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