Indian Moccasins 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jan 1874
label: Collection Date
content: 1873
name: label: Collector
content: Dr Elliott L. Coues
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Elliott L. Coues
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PR. SOFT SOLED MOCCASINS; U-SHAPED TONGUE INSERT; HORSEHAIR COVERING U JOINT; U BEADED IN FLOWER DESIGN WITH SEED BEADS; HIGH (4") ANKLE COVERING OF SEPARATE PIECE; NARROW CLOTH ANGLE FLAP OUTSIDE. SIMILAR CONSTRUCTION TO NO. 21,670-SANTEE SIOUX-EWERS. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Notes
content: Decoration includes floral beadwork.
label: Notes
content: Chippewa style. One piece moccain w/ center seam and 3 rows of horsehair wrapped w/ horsehair in white, red, black. Trade cloth sewn at welt of cuff.
label: Notes
content: In 1873 - 1876, collector Dr. Elliott Coues was attached as surgeon and naturalist to the United States Northern Boundary Commission. During the season of 1873, he went into the field at Pembina, on the Red River, early in June, and in the course of the summer passed along the Line nearly to the Coteau de Missouri, returning from the Souris or Mouse River via Fort Stevenson and the Missouri to Bismarck. He was primarily collecting birds, and that season's operations were on the 49th parallel north, and in the watershed of the Mouse and Red Rivers, his principal collecting grounds being Pembina, Turtle Mountain, and the Mouse River.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Dakota Territory (not certain) / North Dakota (not certain), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not given
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Santee (Isanti) Dakota (?)
label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00012
label: USNM Number
content: E13143-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin