Moccasins
Assiniboine Nakota
Nakota (Yankton Sioux)
First Nation
Northern Plains
Plains
about 1920
Native-tanned cow hide, glass beads, metal beads, ribbon, sinew, thread
Overall: 3 11/16 × 25 5/16 × 4 5/16 in. (9.3 × 64.3 × 11 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Guido R. Rahr, Sr., Class of 1951P
985.47.26632
Geography
Place Made: Assiniboine Mountain, Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Attached tags: "70" "Guaranteed Indian work, Indian Dept; Saskatchewan; Made by Canadian ;Indians under direction of Indian Affairs Branch. Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada"
Exhibition History
Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 19, 1987.
Publication History
Barbara A. Hail and Gregory C. Schwarz, Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1987, p.78, no.164.
Provenance
Collected by Guido Reinhardt Rahr, Sr. (1902-1985), Manitowoc, Wisconsin; given to present collection, 1985.
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