Moccasins

Museum number:
2-63a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020063a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Moccasins or slippers. Sole crimped at toe, folded and sewn at heel. Beadwork instep decoration and fur trim. "Mr. Johnson" written in ink on sole of b. Sewn with sinew thread. Made with depilated leather, trade beads, colored yearns, sinew threads, and rabbit (?) fur.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Moccasins
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
measurements for storage— length 25 centimeters, measurements for storage— width 10 centimeters, and length 25.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-63a,b, described as Moccasins or slippers. Sole crimped at toe, folded and sewn at heel. Beadwork instep decoration and fur trim. "Mr. Johnson" written in ink on sole of b. Sewn with sinew thread. Made with depilated leather, trade beads, colored yearns, sinew threads, and rabbit (?) fur.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-63a,b, described as Moccasins or slippers. Sole crimped at toe, folded and sewn at heel. Beadwork instep decoration and fur trim. "Mr. Johnson" written in ink on sole of b. Sewn with sinew thread. Made with depilated leather, trade beads, colored yearns, sinew threads, and rabbit (?) fur.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-63a,b, described as Moccasins or slippers. Sole crimped at toe, folded and sewn at heel. Beadwork instep decoration and fur trim. "Mr. Johnson" written in ink on sole of b. Sewn with sinew thread. Made with depilated leather, trade beads, colored yearns, sinew threads, and rabbit (?) fur.

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