Moccasins Pair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Feb 1953
label: Collection Date
content: 1857 to 1860
name: label: Collector
content: Lucy C. Williams
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Hermann W. Williams Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "One piece moccasins, black dyed skin. Floral beadwork in blue, yellow, green, red, purple, white and metal seed beads over instep. Ankle flaps covered with black satin, decorated with ribbon work outlined with white and black seed beads." The provenance on these moccasins is somewhat uncertain. They were originally catalogued as probably Iroquois, based on the Niagara Falls collection location. In 1995, Colin Taylor called them Great Lakes. In 2007 David Sager identified them as Cherokee. In 2007 Christian Feest identified them as probably Western Great Lakes, though he would not exclude Cherokee. In 2011 Dr. Sylvia Kasprycki examined them and said they are not Iroquois style, but more probably Western Great Lakes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Niagara Falls, New York / Ontario, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Great Lakes Indian (?)
label: Culture
content: Cherokee (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 196603
label: USNM Number
content: E392306-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin