Moccasins
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1770
name: label: Culture/People
content: Mohegan
label: Artist/Maker
content: Lucy Tecomwas (Lucy Tantaquidgeon/Lucy Decumwus), Mohegan, ca. 1753-1834
label: Previous owner
content: Lucy Tecomwas (Lucy Tantaquidgeon/Lucy Decumwus), Mohegan, ca. 1753-1834
label: Previous owner
content: Cynthia Tecomwas Hoscutt, Mohegan, 1778-1855
label: Previous owner
content: Rachel Hoscutt Fielding, Mohegan, 1800-1860
label: Previous owner
content: Moses Fielding, Mohegan, 1833-1897
label: Previous owner
content: Abel E. Brooks (A.E. Brooks), Non-Indian, 1833-1917
notes: label: Collection History
content: Said to have been made by the artist when she was a young woman; inherited by her daughter Cynthia Tecomwas Hoscutt (Mohegan, 1778-1855); subsequently inherited by Cynthia Hoscutt's daughter Rachel Hoscutt Fielding (Mohegan, 1800-1860) and Rachel Fielding's son Moses Fielding (Mohegan, 1833-1897); acquired from Moses Fielding in 1887 by Abel E. Brooks (1833-1917, a renowned collector of Civil War firearms); acquired by George Heye from an unknown source in 1906.
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place: label: Place
content: Connecticut; USA (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Mohegan
label: See related items
content: Clothing/Garments: Footwear
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 1/1145
label: Barcode
content: 011145.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Clothing/Garments: Footwear
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Moccasins
label: Media/Materials
content: Hide, ribbon, porcupine quills, glass bead/beads
label: Techniques
content: Raised beadwork , quill embroidered, overlay beadwork