Child's Moccasins
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe / Chippewa)
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands
about 1906
Buckskin, cloth, glass beads, thread, and ribbon
Overall: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9879
Geography
Place Made: White Earth Reservation, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Inscriptions
Marks: "Chippewa 1906" on inside instep of right moccasin.
Provenance
Unknown maker, White Earth Reservation, Minnesotra; collected by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, 1906; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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