Pair Of Moccasins (Part Of Clothing Set)

Item number E328769-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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From card: "Procured between the years 1850 - 1860. One piece of tanned skin sewed with sinew at center front and back. Lighter piece of white deerskin with floral design in green, red, and pink yarn. Colored quilled plaiting in two colors at border of top piece."Clothing set E328766, E328767, and E328768 is illus. Fig. 8, p. 53 in Thompson, Judy, 1999, "Marketing Tradition: Late Nineteenth-Century Gwich'in Clothing Ensembles," American Indian Art Magazine, 24(4). Identified there as Gwichi'in type. Because E328769 is identified as part of this clothing set as well on cards for E328766 - 8, it has also been listed as possibly Gwich'in.