Collection: Fenn

Item Number: FCHTM1823

Category: Moccasins - High-top

Region: Plains

Tribe: Kiowa

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Buckskin, pigment, glass beads, metal tacks, rawhide.

Description: Ladies buckskin high-tops covered with yellow pigment and decorated with loom-beaded strips sewn down the front and on an edge flap. Nickel plated copper tacks form a vertical line adjacent to the beaded strips. The soles are rawhide.

Dimensions: Height 18.5 inches

Provenance:

Joe Rivera

References:

Hanson, James A., Spirits in the Arts: From the Plains and Soutwest Indian Cultures, The Lowell Press, Kansas City, 1994, pp 72

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