Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708492

Category: Moccasins

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Yankton or Teton

Period: 1850-1875 - ca. 1860

Materials: Native tanned buffalo hide; buffalo rawhide; multi-colored glass seed beads; tin cones; red wool cloth; sinew sewn.

Description: Moccasins made with rawhide soles and soft tanned uppers with integral tongues. Three lanes of beadwork decorate the perimeter. Vamps have bead decoration in grteen and pink running vertically down center of vamp and edged with tin cones on both sides.

Dimensions: Length 10 inches 25.4 cm.

Provenance:

University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Lessard Collection- SD 501
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

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