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Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
Hard soled beaded leather moccasins with fringe and vermillion pigment Unknown Native American; Kiowa 84.362a-b hide, glass, pigment
Woman’s beaded and quilled leather moccasins Unknown Native American; Cheyenne, Southern 84.373a-b semi-tanned hide, rawhide, glass, porcupine quills, natural dyes, sinew, cotton thread
Woman’s beaded leather moccasins with floral designs Native American; Eastern Sioux 84.287a-b leather, glass, silk, cotton cloth, cotton string.
Woman's beaded moccasins with geometric designs and interior parfleche soles Unknown Native American; Cheyenne 84.400a-b semi-tanned hide, rawhide with hair, glass, sinew (pigment from a previous use of rawhide not part of the mocassin design)
Leather moccasins with beaded geometric designs Native American; Sioux 84.356a-b leather, glass, cotton string, metal, feathers
Woman's leather moccasins with beaded floral design Unknown Native American; Osage 84.416a-b rawhide, semi-tanned hide, glass, cotton
Soft soled leather moccasins with quill work in a floral and geometric pattern on the cuff and vamp of the shoe Native American; possibly Huron 84.274a-b leather, quills, cotton cloth, cotton string, natural dyes
Men’s beaded leather moccasins with white beaded field with a line of green beading and geometric patterns around perimeter Unknown Native American; Cheyenne 84.329a-b commercial leather, glass, cotton
Leather moccasins with blue beaded field and geometric designs around perimeter Unknown Native American; possibly Cheyenne or Arapaho 84.408a-b hide, glass, sinew