Pair Moccasins With Beads
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Col. Paul E. Beckwith
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: IN THE LEDGER AND CARD CATALOG, "MINI WAKAN L." APPEARS AS PART OF THE LOCALE DESIGNATION. THIS IS VERY LIKELY A CORRUPTION OF "MINI WAUKON CHANTE," THE OLD INDIAN NAME FOR THE LAKE WHICH EARLY SETTLERS HAD MISTAKENLY GLOSSED AS "DEVIL'S LAKE." FROM CARD: "MADE OF BUFFALO HIDE AND DEER SKIN WITH RAWHIDE SOLES. UPPER, IN ONE PIECE AND COVERED WITH BEADWORK. SEED BEADS; INSTEP AND BORDER DECORATED ONLY. NO DEC. ON HEEL AREAS; BORDER EXTENDS ONLY 2/3 BACK INNER AND OUTER SIDES. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Devil's Lake (Fort Totten) Agency, Benson County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005272
label: USNM Number
content: E23740-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin