Pair Decorated Moccasins
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Nov 1955
name: label: Donor Name
content: Park Museum, Roger Williams Park
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Acquired as Exchange from Park Museum, Roger Williams Park, Providence, Rhode Island. Collector Unknown, probably ante 1850. Pair moccasins originally of soft-soled, side-seamed pattern which has been repaired with complete rawhide soles over the soft soles. Material thick, probably elkskin. Decoration is pony beads and quillwork. Sky blue beads over toes in two solid color gores. Trimming in heel area is black and white beads. Quillworked band completely around moccasin at lower sides and along center of toe area in a three strand, woven quillwork. Quill colors natural and orange, sinew sewn. These moccasins were not cataloged in Park Museum Coll.. They may have been part of old Brown Univ. Coll. at one time. They resemble old Sioux moccasins of the Catlin-Bodmer period [i.e. circa 1830s] and probably date from the second quarter of the 19th century. Loan: Denver Museum 3/15/65, returned 10/6/65."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Sep 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Plains (Northern), United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 208430
label: USNM Number
content: E393304-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin