A PAIR OF CHEYENNE BEADED HIDE MOCCASINS
A PAIR OF CHEYENNE BEADED HIDE MOCCASINS

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A PAIR OF CHEYENNE BEADED HIDE MOCCASINS
Each with hard leather soles, sinew sewn, with fully beaded uppers decorated with wide beaded bands encircling the foot and bisecting the top, composed of stepped triangle designs, and a central pair of hexagons enclosing cross motifs in two shades of blue, yellow and translucent red beads, two central green beaded panels on the top decorated in a "twisted" design in light blue and translucent red beads, a narrow band stitched across the top with terraced pyramidal designs in dark blue and yellow beads, narrow beaded band at the heel in white, two shades of blue and translucent red beads forming inverted H patterns, upward slanting hide cuff painted yellow, triangular tab at front with forked tip
10in. (26.1cm.) long

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