Moccasins
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Plains
about 1900
Native-tanned hide, rawhide, glass beads, sinew, thread
Overall: 4 1/8 × 10 13/16 × 4 1/2 in. (10.5 × 27.5 × 11.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Newton Buckner
46.10.10801
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on bottom, in graphite: "Rag $8"
Provenance
Collected by Mortimer Norton Buckner (1873-1942), Greenwich, Connecticut, before 1926; bequeathed to his son, Newton Buckner (1913-2005), Greenwich, Connecticut, about 1942; [delivered tro Dartmouth College by Newton Buckner's father-in-law, John Carleton Sterling (1888-1964), Class of 1911]; given to present colllection, 1946.
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