Moccasin

39-18-16.1

From: United States of America | South Dakota | Pine Ridge Reservation

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 39-18-16.1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Oglala
Provenience United States of America | South Dakota | Pine Ridge Reservation
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Hide | Buckskin | Bead | Quill
Description

Rawhide soles; low buckskin tops with tongue and pointed, down-folding ankle flaps of buckskin sewed to them; buckskin tying thongs. Band of beads, with triangular designs in red and blue on white background on uppers along soles. Vamp decorated with parallel lines of pink porcupine quills.

Length 15 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Robert Frazier, 1939

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