Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC9506003

Category: Moccasins

Region: Northeast

Tribe: Iroquois

Period: 1825-1850

Materials: Native tanned hide; silk; beads; porcupine quills.

Description: Child's quilled moccasins, sewn at the center with a quilled panel of red, blue and white; the cuffs with pink, yellow and blue silks sewn in white beads with stylized plant forms

Dimensions: Length 6.5 inches 16.5 cm.

Provenance:

Mrs. Bruce Bossom
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Splendid Heritage, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, February 10, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy, May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Mo, Febuary 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010

References:

Christie's Auction Catalogue, Christie's, New York, London, Lot 193, June 26, 1995
Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 158

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