Pair Of Beaded Moccasins
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Feb 1937
label: Collection Date
content: 1 Jul 1926
name: label: Collector
content: John G. Carter
label: Donor Name
content: John G. Carter
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Rawhide soles with elkskin uppers covered with beadwork, mostly in form of small checker squares. Worn by Bird Rattler, a Piegan, on the Blackfoot Reservation, Montana, at the sun dance camp, July 1, 1926. Typical Blackfoot "mountain" design on instep. - Ewers."
label: Notes
content: Per information from John C. Ewers on catalogue card for E419103A, Bird Rattler was a well-known Blood Indian married to a Piegan woman and living on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. Born ca. 1859, he was a veteran of the inter-tribal wars. See portraits of him in National Anthropological Archives.
label: Notes
content: Collector's diaries (as typed transcriptions) are part of Collection 2204 - John G. Carter Papers, 1855-1952, Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections. His diary entry for July 1, 1926 describes the gift of these moccasins to him. See pp. 101-102 https://www.lib.montana.edu/digital/objects/coll2204/2204-B01-F07.pdf .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Blackfoot Reservation, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Piegan (Piikani)
label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Blood (Kainai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 142628
label: USNM Number
content: E378373-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin