Moccasins Pair, Decorated
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: "Each made of 6 pieces of skin; (1) foot and lower sides; (2) long inserted U shaped tongue; (3 & 4) small V shaped pieces between ankle flaps and base piece, one each side; (5 & 6) ankle flaps. Base piece puckered near tongue-insert joint. Decoration: Quillwork on tongue and outside ankle flaps - colors, orange, blue, purple and natural quills. Cloth edging of ankle flaps. Dr. [William N.] Fenton, BAE, stated the type probably Huron or Mohawk from vicinity of Montreal, late 18th or early 19th Century - Feb. 17, 1948."
label: Notes
content: Decoration is floral moose hair embroidery, per Richard Zane Smith, Wyandot, 6-14-2013
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence River, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Huron (Wendat) (?)
label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Mohawk (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386560-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin