Moccasins
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Feb 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. George B. Goode
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Sarah F. Goode
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: CHIPPEWA? [CHIPPEWA HAS BEEN STRUCK THROUGH ON CARD]. IROQUOIS*" REMARKS: THIS IS AN IROQUOIS TYPE--E.S.DODGE, PEABODY, SALEM, MASS. *ACCESSION PAPERS AND LEDGER SHOW "CHIPPEWA INDIANS, COGNAWAGA, CANADA." LHC 8/77. STORAGE WITH CHIPPEWA COL. (WAS FOUND WITH IROQUOIS) LHC 8/77. INVENTORIED 1977." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "MOCCASINS OF THE IROQUOIS INDIANS (IROQUOIAN STOCK). OF DEERSKIN AND LEATHER, SOLE PIECES WELL TURNED UP; UPPERS, LET IN AND ARE EITHER PLAIN OR PROFUSELY EMBROIDERED; ANKLE BAND OF CLOTH, ALSO DECORATED. CANADA AND NEW YORK. 30,842; 24,785; 151,388. COLLECTED BY G. BROWN GOODE AND OTHERS."
label: Notes
content: In 2011 Dr. Sylvia Kasprycki examined this artifact and said it is Iroquois style.
label: Notes
content: Cataloguing in Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists these as Chippewa, but also says "Cognawaga Canada". "Cognawaga" is probably Caughnawaga/Kahnawake, a Mohawk area, which would add support for Sylvia Kasprycki's (and others) Iroquois attribution for these moccasins.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) (?)
label: Culture
content: Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Mohawk (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 038947
label: USNM Number
content: E30842-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin