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Moccasin (one of a pair)

Native American, Sioux
about 1900
Object Place: United States, Plains

Medium/Technique Buckskin, wool plain weave, and glass beads
Dimensions 14 x 10.5 x 26 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number02.418
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsCostumes

DescriptionBuckskin moccasin, ornamented with a geometric design worked with strings of blue, white, red and green beads tacked to the skin by rows of sewing at intervals of about one centimeter and red wool flannel cuffs with pinked bottom edge
Provenance1902, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 1, 1902)