Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708397

Category: Moccasins

Region: Plains

Tribe: Plains

Period: 1850-1875 - ca. 1860

Materials: Native tanned hide; rawhide (soles); multi-colored glass seed beads; white glass pony beads; sinew sewn.

Description: Rawhide soles and soft tanned uppers with integral tongues. Vamp is partially bead decorated with alternating bands in pink and black running vertically. A one lane border extends from heel, along outside, to beginning of instep and includes white pony beads.

Dimensions: Length 10.5 inches 26.7 cm.

Provenance:

Terry Foreman, Friendship, Indiana
Lessard Collection- SD 394
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Splendid Heritage, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, February 10, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy, May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Mo, Febuary 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010

References:

Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 28

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