Moccasin
45-15-467
From: United States of America | Alaska
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 45-15-467 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska |
| Culture Area | Subarctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Buckskin | Glass | Quill | Fiber | Flannel |
| Technique | Tanned | Beaded |
| Iconography | Floral Motif |
| Description | Smoked buckskin, T-heel seam and toe-seam with very short horizontals. U-shaped instep piece faced with red flannel and beaded in floral design black, white and green. Paired scrolls ornament the whole moccasin top mostly in very small seed beads, black, white, red and irridescent. Ankle opening is strengthened by a buckskin strip lashed on. |
| Length | 24.13 cm |
| Width | 11.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
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