Embroidered Moccasins
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Mar 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF BROWN AND WHITE DEERSKIN ORNAMENTATION IN BLUE AND RED FLANNEL WITH YELLOW, RED, BLUE, WHITE, AND TRANSPARENT BEADS. MADE FROM SMOKED CARIBOU SKIN, CUT IN ONE PIECE, A SEAM EXTENDING DOWN THE TOP OF THE FOOT AND A T-SHAPE SEAM CLOSING THE HEEL. AN ORNAMENTED TONGUE PIECE IS SEWED ON THE INSTEP. A FRINGE OF RED FLANNEL EXTENDS AROUND THE ANKLE AND A LEGGING OF BUCKSKIN IS WRAPPED AROUND THE LOWER PART OF THE LEG. DECORATED WITH BEADWORK. *IDENTIFIED AS "TANANA" FROM PROVENIENCE DATA, COMPARED WITH 49111 FF. -- LATTER CALLED TANANA BY C. OSGOOD, SEPT. 1970."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Tanana River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan)
label: Culture
content: Tanana
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034807
label: USNM Number
content: E201102-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin