Moccasins
Nimi'puu (Nez Perce)
Plateau
about 1920
Native-tanned hide, glass beads, thread
Overall: 3 1/8 × 10 1/4 × 3 15/16 in. (8 × 26 × 10 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9857
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plateau
Not on view
Publication History
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 49, ill. fig. 8.2.
Provenance
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Northwestern United States, 1902-1904; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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