A pair of children’s moccasins, built with recycled painted parfleche soles, and soft native-tanned buffalo uppers which are decorated with sinew-sewn seed beads. The vamps consists of a navy triangle-diamond motif, flanked by crosses, which float on a yellow ground. The cuffs are trimmed with cloth. Inscribed on the underside of the soles is the collection # “AE 12”.

Collected by Henry W. Andrews (b. 1829), Deputy Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1885, likely in the Dakotas; handed down by descent; donated to a Western New York Museum (1913-2006).

5.5” long

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