A PAIR OF PLAINS BEADED HIDE MOCCASINS

UPPER MISSOURI/METIS

細節

A PAIR OF PLAINS BEADED HIDE MOCCASINS
UPPER MISSOURI/METIS
Sinew sewn, rawhide sole, Indian tanned hide, glass seed beads in white, yellow, black, blue and translucent red and green and red wool, decorated with floral motifs, hide ties
10¾in. (27.3cm.) long

來源

Collected by Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, 1859, and gifted to the ancestors of the current owners.

出版

Peterson, 1993, p. 61

展覽

Washington State University, Sacred Encounters, Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West, 1993

拍品專文

"These moccasins have hard rather than soft soles. Hard soles became necessary as Plateau people spent more time hunting bison on the Plains, which were covered with prickly pear cactus. The beaded design is evidence of the adaptation by Plateau women of eastern Woodlands double-curve and floral designs," (Peterson, 1993, p. 61).

Father De Smet may have acquired these moccasins together with the unstuffed pad saddle (see lot 103). The beadwork is very similar.

Ted Brasser March 14, 2000