Pair Of Moccasins
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "Moccasins given Mrs. C.A. Reed in 1887 or 1888 by Herbert Swaim, who was homesteading at Wolf, Wyo. (near Sheridan). Made by Crow Indians who were near neighbors of the ranch. Full size, toes partially beaded. Badly worn by many years of use by Reed family. Sole and heel stitching replaced in part by modern repairing (cotton thread) by WCS. Outside of upper border of tops formerly decorated with strip of red flannel, loose fragment of which remains. (John C. Ewers [curator] Aug 20, 1958: Crow, and the earliest dated pair of Crow moccasins with all-over floral design that JCE knows of, USNM has a pair dated 1892, see now W. Wildschut & J.C. Ewers, Crow Ind. Beadwork, MAI-HF, C16(1959), p 22-3, fig 2.2)"
label: Notes
content: Mrs. C. A. Reed is Mrs. Charlton Alanis Reed (Emilie Harding Curtis); Sturtevant grandmother
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Wyoming, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Crow (Apsaalooke)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437861-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin