Object Number | NA1254.1 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Chilkat | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska | Klukwan |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Hide | Fur | Glass | Wool |
Description | One of a pair of animal hide moccasins. Soft upper with a rawhide sole sewn on with yellow thread, puckered at both the toe and heel. The upper is ornamented over the toe with a beaded design that may be an insect over a flower. The design is done in white, blue, yellow, red, green, and multiple types of metal beads. Beadwork continues along the sides of the upper in a simple zigzag design made from short segments of six beads. A cuff made from brown fur is sewn on around the ankle. |
Length | 29 cm |
Width | 12 cm |
Credit Line | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
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