Moccasins
38-22-2B
From: United States of America | Illinois | Cook County | Chicago
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 38-22-2B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Iroquois (uncertain) |
| Provenience | United States of America | Illinois | Cook County | Chicago |
| Culture Area | Northeast Culture Area |
| Period | Historic Period |
| Date Made | -1836 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Buckskin | Fiber | Glass |
| Description | Smoked brown buckskin. One piece sole and upper; T-shaped heel-seam; puckered at vamp. Broad black velvet vamp and ankle flap decorated with floral designs in varicoloured beads. Fine old specimen; well preserved. |
| Height | 9.5 cm |
| Length | 26 cm |
| Width | 9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of John S. Gummey in memory of his grandfather John M. Gummey, 1938 |
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