Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC9412021

Category: Moccasins

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Southern Teton

Period: 1825-1850 - ca. 1845

Materials: Native tanned buffalo hide; red, white and blue glass pony beads; sinew sewn.

Description: One piece side seam moccasins with fully beaded uppers and bead decorated bifurcated tongues.

Dimensions: Length 10.5 inches 26.7 cm.

Provenance:

Colonel E. H. Morrison, 1878
Mr. And Mrs. Jerry Turner, Texas
Jim Umbeck Collection, Seattle, Washington
Mike Walsh, Chicago, Illinois
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

References:

Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale 3977, Lot 24, April 22, 1977
Feder, Norman, American Indian Art Before 1850, Denver Art Museum, Denver, 1965, Fig. 39(b)

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