Pair Moccasins
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Jul 1970
label: Collection Date
content: 1893 to 1902
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Fred H. Stoll
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Small, soft-soled, curvilinear pattern of bead embroidery in blue, yellow, pink, ecru and black. Ankles edged with black velvet. Mrs. Delores Churchill, a Haida woman participating in the 1984 Folk Life Festival, states that the interior leaf outline color on the vamp of the moccasin indicates the season of a child's birth - black for winter; green for spring. The black outline on the interior leaf motif would indicate that these moccasins heralded a winter birth. Se also says that children did not wear clan emblems until they were 12 years old. written in by P. R. Linn, Collections Mngr. 25 July 1984, approved by W. Sturtevant, curator, N. Am. Indian Ethnology."
label: Notes
content: Ruth Demmert and Florence Sheakley, elders and beaders, and Virginia Oliver made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This pair of baby moccasins has size 14-16 beads in the design, and is lined with velveteen around the ankles. The bottom of the moccasins are clean, so they were probably only worn when going out or for decoration. Chinese shoes also often have pointed toes, so the change from rounded-toe to pointed-toe moccasins may have been due to contact with Chinese workers in Wrangell.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 1.10 p. 52 in Smetzer, Megan A. 2021. Painful Beauty : Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience. Seattle: Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art, Burke Museum : University of Washington Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/85691/ .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 290241
label: USNM Number
content: E411790-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca 13 cm