Moccasins
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
collected 1922
Caribou leather, beads, and cord
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn Nixon Jardine
157.15.13908
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Provenance
Given to Evelyn Nixon Jardine (1899-1996), teacher at the St. Mark's Episcopal Mission School, Nenana, Alaska, 1921-1923, as an invitation to a 1922 potlatch, in memory of those who died in the 1918 epidemic of influenza; given to present collection, 1957.
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