Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC9605008

Category: Moccasins

Region: Northeast

Tribe: Huron

Period: 1825-1850

Materials: Black-dyed hide; dyed moosehair; silk ribbon

Description: Lorette embroidered moccasins joined at the heel with a Y shaped seam, embroidered dyed-moosehair on the vamps and cuffs against the hide background, red silk ribbon along the edges and forming a tie at the front

Dimensions: Length 9 inches 22.8 cm.

Provenance:

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:

Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale 6853, Lot 134, May 21, 1996
Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 39

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