Moccasins, Pr
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The uppers of these moccasins are beaded in openwork floral design. A tag says: "These moccasins belong to Houston Charley and were given him as a bribe to stop working for the United States Government."
label: Notes
content: Soles recycled from parfleche. Painted designs on inside sole.
label: Notes
content: Speculatively, there was a Southern Ute man named Buckskin Charley/Charlie, a.k.a. Sapiah. He succeeded Chief Ouray in 1880, becoming the first Ute leader during the reservation period. There was also a non-Native American man, Charles White (1846 - 1923), called Buckskin Charley/Charlie, who was a beekeeper, translator, blacksmith, and scout, originally from Ohio, who went west to Nebraska circa 1865 and later Colorado. White was listed as an interpreter at the Devils Lake (now Spirit Lake) Dakota Reservation, North Dakota, in the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1892, 1893, 1894. https://nebraskahistory.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=White, Charles, 1846-1923, retrieved 10-28-2021.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358936-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin