Notes

This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.From card: "Soft leather, beaded floral design." Drawing of moccasin showing beadwork design is on reverse of the card, with the notation "Blue, green, red + black beads."Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=687 , retrieved 2-12-2022: Moccasins, Tlingit. These moccasins were sewn from soft-tanned deer or caribou hide and beaded with striking leaf, flower, berry, and nut or catkin designs. The designs may be fanciful, rather than representing real plants. People of the southern Yukon region, including the Inland Tlingit, constructed moccasins of this type, with T-shaped heal seams and blunt toes. This pair was collected on the coast at Sitka, reflecting trade between coast and interior groups.