Moccasins (Dance Boots)
Gwich'in
Dene (Athabascan)
Subarctic
collected 1903-1904
Native tanned and smoked hide, glass beads, metal beads, thread
Overall: 6 1/2 × 4 3/16 × 9 13/16 in. (16.5 × 10.7 × 25 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Col. Alfred T. Clifton, Class of 1927P
42.15.7813
Geography
Place Made: Fort Yukon, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 12.11, NAS 30, Arctic Crossroads: Its Peoples, Cultures, and History, William Fitzhugh, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
Native American Designs of the Northern Woodlands, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 20, 1995-February 9, 1997.
Provenance
Collected by Lt. Col. Alfred Theodore Clifton (1875-1944) with the U.S. Army Signal Corps aboard the cable ship Burnside, St. Michael, Alaska, 1903-1904; given to present collection (through his son, Alfred Theodore Clifton, Jr. (1906-1996), Class of 1927), 1942.
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