Woman's Moccasins 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Dec 1882
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Woman's moccasins (Ku-ta-tshk). - Dressed deerskin, decorated with a broad stripe of small glass beads of various colors around the foot and up the front of the ankle. Length: Leg, 16 ins.; Foot, 8 ins. Kenai Indians. Tyonak, Suchitno River, Alaska, 1882. Collected by Wm. J. Fisher."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=8, retrieved 8-26-2012: Moccasins, Dena'ina Athabascan. These Dena'ina women's moccasins for summer are made from tanned caribou hide on which small round scars left by a common parasite of the animal - the warble fly - can be seen. Late nineteenth-century tall moccasins like these echo an even older style of "moccasin-pants" that rose all the way to the waist. They are decorated with bands of glass trade beads that resemble designs that before European contact were made with dyed porcupine quills. Elders said that the fringes of sinew on the back of each moccasin were added to "mess up the trail," erasing the wearer's passage as she walked.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 297 in Jones, Suzi, James A. Fall, and Aaron Leggett. 2013. Dena'inaq' huch'ulyeshi: the Dena'ina way of living.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Tyonek, Cook Inlet, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tanaina (Dena'ina)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 012209
label: USNM Number
content: E72503-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 44.5 cm