Moccasin-leggings (Wrapped moccasins); buckskin rubbed white with kaolin with black-dyed cowhide sole; forward half of uppers stained red with red ocher; worn wrapped in spiral around leg to well above knee; buckskin ties. cowhide probably blackened with Yucca baccata (soapweed) combined with charcoal.
Donor:
Mrs. Frances Kee
Collection place:
Santa Ana, Sandoval County, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico; Sandoval; Santa Ana
Culture or time period:
Santa Ana
Maker or artist:
Joe O. Garcia
Collector:
Joe O. Garcia
Collection date:
1939
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Moccasins
Accession date:
1970
Context of use:
Made by Joe O. Garcia for his wife to wear in "Mask Dance"; this style worn by women only; white moccasins for daily use; Garcia learned on his own to make shoes which he sold to other Indians; he specialized in making all white style.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 26 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "Ha-shu-we-me" (shoes); "Mishkarg" (red ocher). Role in trade: Sold for $5.00 a pair. Moccasins brought to Museum by his (Joe O. Garcia's) daughter, Frances Kee.
Loans:
S1978-1979 #12: Merritt College (WHOOPS!9, 1978–February 1, 1979)