Moccasins
Tutchone
Dene (Athabascan)
First Nation
Subarctic
collected 1946-1947
Hide, fur, glass trade beads, and cotton
Overall: 9 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (24.1 × 10.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Melitta Kern-Hammond
989.27.27051
Geography
Place Made: Canada, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Subarctic
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by James M. Nelson III, on a hunting trip, 1946-1947; to Eleonore von Kern Nelson; to her sister, Melitta von Kern-Hammond; given to present collection, 1989.
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