Child's Moccasins

Anishinaabe (Ojibwe / Chippewa)
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands

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about 1906

Buckskin, cloth, glass beads, thread, and ribbon

Overall: 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9879

Geography

Place Made: White Earth Reservation, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Footwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Woodlands

Not on view

Inscriptions

Marks: "Chippewa 1906" on inside instep of right moccasin.

Provenance

Unknown maker, White Earth Reservation, Minnesotra; collected by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, 1906; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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