Moccasin, 1 Right, Quilled
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Appears to have been originally one piece, soft soled, outside-seamed type moccasin, worn hole in heel. The whole bottom of foot has a piece of commercially tanned brown leather over it. No tongue. Decoration confined to toe-instep area - large quilled rosette on separate piece of skin sewn to moccasin top. Design in orange, blue green and natural colored quills. The green is bird quill. - Norman Feder 4/1961. Decoration - This design used by many tribes from Dakota to Blackfeet in 1830s, as shown in illustrations of Catlin and Bodmer. - j.c.e." This side seam moccasin may be Assiniboine? per Morgan Baillargeon, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2009.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Nakoda/Nakota/Nakona) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386551-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin