Buffalo hide with glass seed beads and metal tinklers; sinew sewn; white, red, blue, yellow, green; top sections only.
Donor:
Caroline Mytinger
Collection place:
Northern Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
Northern Plains
Culture or time period:
Northern Plains tribes
Collector:
Caroline Mytinger
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Bison bison
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Moccasins
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Production date:
1800-1899
Accession date:
July 22, 1980
Context of use:
Made probably "around the turn of the centry, possibly the late 1800's
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 29 centimeters
Comment:
Moccasins, buffalo hide with glass seed beads and metal tinklers; sinew sewn; white, red, blue, yellow, green; top sections only. 29cm. Method of construction indicates a probable date of around the turn of the century, possibly late 1800's.