Moccasin
97-84-1531.1
From: United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Canadian River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-84-1531.1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cheyenne (culture) | Arapaho |
| Provenience | United States of America | Oklahoma | Near Canadian River |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Rawhide | Buckskin | Pigment | Bead |
| Description | One of a pair of child's moccasins with a rawhide sole and a buckskin upper stained yellow. Beaded circumferal band, instep and two longitudinal stripes with space between painted red. Designs bird, mammal and pipe; dark blue on white ground. The twin longitudinal stripes from instep to toes with elongated painted V-strip between show borrowing from Apache moccasin which has the V-tongue thus inserted v. |
| Length | 13.34 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-84-1531 - Old Museum Number | 17678 - ANSP Number | II 1002 - Gottschall Number |
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