Moccasin, Probably Small Girl's
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TWO OR THREE PIECE MOCCASIN OF UNUSUAL TYPE - (1) SOLE PIECE, PROB. SOFT SKIN, RISING AT SIDES AND BACK ABOVE SIDES OF FOOT; VERTICAL SEAM AT HEEL; UPPER, SMALL MAYBE SAME PIECE AS HIGH ANGLE PIECE. DECORATION: PREDOMINANTLY BLUE AND WHITE PONY BEADS; SOME BLACK ONES AT HEEL; ALSO BLACK AND RED CLOTH U AREA OVER INSTEP DECORATED WITH ONE LINE ONLY OF CONVENTIONALIZED FLOWER? IN SMALL WHITE SEED BEADS. REMARKABLE FOR MOCCASIN PATTERN; AND DECORATION; ESP. EARLY USE OF SMALL SEED BEADS. -J.C. EWERS JAN. 1948." SEE PL. 9, P. 78 IN "THE DUAL SIDE SEAM, AN OVERLOOKED MOCCASIN" BY DAVE SAGER IN AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 21, NO. 2, SPRING 1996, WHERE OBJECT IS ILLUS. AND DESCRIBED (UNDER OLD #T10030) ON P. 79 AS "DUAL SIDE SEAM BOOT MOCCASIN, NORTHERN PLAINS 1830-1850. NATIVE-TANNED HIDE, EUROPEAN TEXTILE, SINEW, THREAD, PONY BEADS, SEED BEADS. DETAILS OF DECORATION ARE DESCRIBED IN TEXT (PP. 75-6). ALTHOUGH THE CONSTRUCTION STITCH IS PLAINLY VISIBLE, THIS SPECIMEN WAS SEWN TOGETHER INSIDE OUT, THEN REVERSED FOR WEAR. THE HORIZONTAL HEEL SEAM DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE HAD A PROTRUDING FLANGE, THOUGH THE DEGREE OF DAMAGE PRESENT PRECLUDES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CERTAINTY."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386531-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin