Moccasins

Museum number:
2-62143a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210262143a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.20
Description:
Pair of moccasins. Leather, one piece with back seam, hard sole sewn on separately, separate rectangular cuff and oval tongue, leather strip around ankle for tie; beaded on toe and around lower edge, dark blue, yellow and brown glass seed beads in triangular pattern on white and green ground. Design Sioux, early seed bead period (1840-1870). Lazy stitch.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Frances C. Hutchins
Collection place:
Northern Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northern Plains
Culture or time period:
Northern Plains tribes
Collector:
Francis C. Hutchens
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Moccasins
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 26 centimeters
Comment:
References: *Lyford, Carrie A. Quill and Beadwork of the Western Sioux, Johnson Publishing Co., Boulder, 1982, p. 73.; Hail, Barbara A. Hau, Kola, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, 1980, p. 101.
Loans:
S1981-1982 #39: University of California, Davis/Pat Charley (January 19, 1982–March 30, 1982)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-62143a,b, described as Pair of moccasins. Leather, one piece with back seam, hard sole sewn on separately, separate rectangular cuff and oval tongue, leather strip around ankle for tie; beaded on toe and around lower edge, dark blue, yellow and brown glass seed beads in triangular pattern on white and green ground. Design Sioux, early seed bead period (1840-1870). Lazy stitch.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-62143a,b, described as Pair of moccasins. Leather, one piece with back seam, hard sole sewn on separately, separate rectangular cuff and oval tongue, leather strip around ankle for tie; beaded on toe and around lower edge, dark blue, yellow and brown glass seed beads in triangular pattern on white and green ground. Design Sioux, early seed bead period (1840-1870). Lazy stitch.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moccasins, accession number 2-62143a,b, described as Pair of moccasins. Leather, one piece with back seam, hard sole sewn on separately, separate rectangular cuff and oval tongue, leather strip around ankle for tie; beaded on toe and around lower edge, dark blue, yellow and brown glass seed beads in triangular pattern on white and green ground. Design Sioux, early seed bead period (1840-1870). Lazy stitch.

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