Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8709015

Category: Moccasins

Region: Plains

Tribe: Arapaho

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Native tanned hide; buffalo rawhide (soles); multi-colored glass seed beads; green and red dry paint; sinew sewn.

Description: Moccasins made with rawhide soles, welts, soft tanned uppers with integral tongues, supplemental side flaps, heel fringe and vamp fringe. Bead decoration in two lanes on vamp plus single lane bead border. Bead decoration on flaps and tongues. Overall hide is painted green with red band between beaded lanes on vamp.

Dimensions: Length 10.5 inches 26.7 cm.

Provenance:

Benson Lanford Collection
Alexander Gallery
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 155

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