Moccasin-making: Skin Cutouts, Beads, Needles, Moccasin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: NO NUMBER; BLACKFOOT - apparently never catalogued? Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 21. All information below is from exhibit labels and was presumably provided/written by John C. Ewers. Felicia Pickering recorded this information from the labels as exhibit was being taken down in 2004. The various objects show the stages of making a moccasin. "Katy Home Gun of the Blackfeet Reservation, Montana prepared this demonstration of her moccasin-making methods in 1957." 1/4 - one piece of smoked buckskin for moccasin upper with 4 attached strings of glass seed beads; bead colors - red, orange, light blue, navy blue. 2/4 - one piece cattle rawhide for moccasin sole. 3/4 - one partially completed moccasin: rawhide sole partially sewn to upper with sinew thread; needle is attached to sinew thread; partially completed beadwork design of light and navy blue glass beads is sewn with cotton thread on moccasin upper; needle is attached to cotton thread. 4/4 Completed left moccasin. "The completed moccasin bears an old Blackfoot design. The moccasin is fully beaded with needle and thread or sinew before the hard sole is sewn with tough sinew."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
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)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET16543-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin / Needle