A pair of hard-soled moccasins with soft uppers, assembled with commercial thread and sinew, and decorated with Crow-stitched seed beads. Originally, it would appear that the moccasins had a soft-sole construction, but the soles were subsequently replaced with rawhide. The beaded vamps consist of geometrically inscribed bands which sit on a blue ground. The background is trimmed in white and bordered with a lane of pink with interspersed green blocks.

Ex Mike Maxwell, CO; ex Peter Cleary, NM; ex Ken Stasiak, OK.

Approximately 10" long

Published: Thomas Cleary, ed. BraveArt: The Emergence of Tribal Style In Plains Indian Art - 1840s to 1880s (Groton, MA: The Groton School, 2005), p. 21.

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