Moccasins
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1892 to 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Eugene S. Dutcher
label: Collector
content: Mary B. Dutcher
label: Donor Name
content: Donald Cummings
notes: label: Notes
content: TWO-PIECE SOFT SOLE POINTED TOE MOCCASIN: ONE-PIECE BUCKSKIN SOLE AND UPPER WITH CENTER FRONT SEAM AND T-SHAPE HEEL SEAM. SEPARATE VAMP COVERED WITH BLACK VELVET. FIVE ROWS DYED HORSEHAIR VAMP EDGING. COTTON CLOTH COLLAR, SKIN TIE. IDENTIFIED AS OF PROBABLE CREE MANUFACTURE BY DR. JOHN C. EWERS, 12-1991. THESE MAY BE THE MOCCASINS REFERRED TO BY MRS. DUTCHER IN HER LETTER OF MAY 6, 1894 TO HER MOTHER, WHERE SHE DESCRIBES BEING GIVEN SEVERAL ITEMS BY AN INDIAN WOMAN, INCLUDING A PAIR OF CREE BUCKSKIN MOCCASINS. COPY OF LETTER IS IN ACCESSION FILE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi)
label: Culture
content: Cree
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390845
label: USNM Number
content: E425907-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 12 cm