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POSSIBLY BLACKFOOT
Details
A PAIR OF PLAINS BEADED HIDE MOCCASINS
POSSIBLY BLACKFOOT
constructed of buffalo hide, with sinew sewn beadwork in pink, black, white, and translucent green beads against the hide ground, each decorated on the vamp with an abstract motif, consisting of three elongated petals and two scrolling projections, rawhide soles, each with faint red and black pigments on the interior, each tongue with ink inscription 9380
Lengths: 10¼ in. (26 cm.) each (2)
POSSIBLY BLACKFOOT
constructed of buffalo hide, with sinew sewn beadwork in pink, black, white, and translucent green beads against the hide ground, each decorated on the vamp with an abstract motif, consisting of three elongated petals and two scrolling projections, rawhide soles, each with faint red and black pigments on the interior, each tongue with ink inscription 9380
Lengths: 10¼ in. (26 cm.) each (2)
Literature
Illustrated in Die Prarieindianer Nordamerikas 1840 - 1890, plate 17.
Exhibited
Amerika Haus Berlin, Mar. 1 - 31, 1971