Moccasins

Museum number:
2-5223a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21025223a@2cb
Alternate number:
34 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
Made of smoked buckskin; sinew sewn; beaded in floral designs with multicolored beads.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Central Plains
Culture or time period:
Umoⁿhoⁿ
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Materials:
Buckskin
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Moccasins
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 26.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photos of members of the Shell Society show similar moccasins: P. 516-19, "The Omaha Tribe", BAE 27. Exhibited: UCLMA, "Plains Indians", 1971. Moccasins are not made in traditional one piece Omaha style.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #79: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (March 18, 1965–August 6, 1965) and S1973-1974 #65: Oakland Museum of California (March 8, 1974–April 24, 1974)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Moccasins, accession number 2-5223a,b, described as Made of smoked buckskin; sinew sewn; beaded in floral designs with multicolored beads.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Moccasins, accession number 2-5223a,b, described as Made of smoked buckskin; sinew sewn; beaded in floral designs with multicolored beads.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-5223a,b, described as Made of smoked buckskin; sinew sewn; beaded in floral designs with multicolored beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-5223a,b, described as Made of smoked buckskin; sinew sewn; beaded in floral designs with multicolored beads.

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