Moccasins, Pr
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Dec 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Rudolph Schiffmann
label: Collector
content: Dr. Charles Rau
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Charles Rau
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BUFFALO SKIN BEADED AND DYED YELLOW. HARD SOLE; DECORATED WITH TWO PARRALLEL BORDERS ON OUTER SIDE ONLY; BEADED PANEL OVER HEEL SEEM; INSTEP BEADED WITH LARGE INVERTED T, BEADED EDGING AROUND ANGLE OPENING AND TONGUE. ALL IN PONY SIZE BEADS. CLOSELY RESEMBLES EARLY SOFT SOLED SIOUX DECORATION-EWERS. LOAN: DENVER MUSEUM 3/15/65. RETURNED 10/6/65."
label: Notes
content: Original list in accession file indicates Rau got this object from Rud. [Rudolph?] Schiffmann. This may be Dr. Rudolph Schiffmann (1845 – 1926)? Schiffmann was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and then got his medical degree in 1867. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Army and assigned to General Winfield S. Hancock's 1867 punitive expedition against the Southern Cheyenne, etc.. He resigned from the Army in 1868 and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he practiced medicine, and became a successful businessman. He moved to Pasadena, California in 1905.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019931
label: USNM Number
content: E178890-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin