Beaded Moccasins (Pair)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 1981
name: label: Collector
content: N/A
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Marjorie M. Post
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Rawhide sole; buckskin uppers, all solidly beaded [including bottom of soles] except for ankle flap & base of "U"-shaped tongue; beading, white background with blue, green, rose & gold geometric designs; Part of the design in the beading on either side of the instep are the initials of H.C., ankle flap bound with floral design black cotton cloth."
label: Notes
content: These moccasins have an old original ring tag attached. One side says "8933 / $12.50" and the other side has a wax seal which appears to say "Santa" [Santa Fe?]. This may relate to the Fred Harvey Company. Compare to Harvey Company ring tag with E418763A. Fred Harvey (1835-1901) began a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1878. In 1889, the Railway gave Harvey exclusive rights to manage and operate his eating houses, lunch stands, and hotel facilities upon the Santa Fe's railroads west of the Missouri River. After his death, Harvey's sons, Ford and Byron took over the family business. In 1902, at the urging of Fred Harvey's daughter Minnie Harvey Huckel, The Fred Harvey Company began to purchase, display and sell Native American Art via its Indian Department. Minnie Harvey Huckel's husband, John Frederick Huckel, was the head of the Fred Harvey Company Indian Department, but company agent Herman Schweizer was the man who set the direction for the company's successful artifact trade. Schweizer not only acquired objects for the tourist trade, he also purchased Native American art for exhibit in the Fred Harvey Company Indian Building in Albuquerque, NM. The company participated in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase World's Fair (St. Louis) and the 1915 fairs in San Diego and San Francisco. Through the early 1900s, the company was actively buying and selling Native American art to collectors and museums, including purchasing entire collections. Prior to the creation of the Indian Department, Native peoples took advantage of train stops on their reservations as an opportunity to sell their goods to passing travelers. With the creation of the Indian Department, Native Americans became employed as salespeople and artist-demonstrators at Harvey Hotels.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Sep 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Plains North, 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: 318782
label: USNM Number
content: E418711A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin