Collection: Fenn

Item Number: FCMOC1850

Category: Moccasins

Region: Plains

Tribe: Cheyenne

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Rawhide, glass beads, red and yellow ocher, buckskin.

Description: Rawhide soles are sinew stitched to soft buckskin tops that are beaded and rubbed with red and yellow ocher. Fringe hangs to the outside and the heels. The soles are unused.

Dimensions: Length 10.5 inches

Provenance:

Joseph Henry Sharp

References:

Hanson, James A., Spirits in the Arts: From the Plains and Soutwest Indian Cultures, The Lowell Press, Kansas City, 1994, pp 67

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