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Moccasins

Culture
Lakota artist
Date
c.1890
Material
Tanned hide, parfleche, and glass beads
made in
United States, North and Central America
Classification
Costume & clothing, textiles
Collection
Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Current Location
On View, Gallery 322
Dimensions
each: 4 × 3 1/2 × 9 in. (10.2 × 8.9 × 22.9 cm)
Credit Line
The Donald Danforth Jr. Collection, Gift of Mrs. Donald Danforth Jr.
Rights
Public Domain
Object Number
102:2010a,b
NOTES
Design choices provide information about the value and use of moccasins. Women typically adorned everyday moccasins with less beadwork. Artists beaded all over some shoes, including soles, for occasional use in ceremonies or as honorary gifts. At feasts families also gave away the upper parts of moccasins and recipients attached soles, a possibility suggested here with recycled rawhide.
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