Moccasins
Seneca (Haudenosaunee)
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
Northeast Woodlands
Woodlands
about 1820
Deerskin, porcupine quills, dye, sinew, ribbon, thread
Overall: 2 3/8 × 9 7/16 × 3 15/16 in. (6 × 24 × 10 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert G. Chaffee, Class of 1936
159.14.14400
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Exhibition History
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
Native American Designs of the Northern Woodlands, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 20, 1995-February 9, 1997.
Publication History
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 115 and p. 176, no. 154.
Sherry Brydon, "Beautiful in Its Materials and Finish" Early-Nineteenth-Century Iroquois Moccasins, American Indian Art Magazine, Volume 36, Number 4, Autumn 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona: American Indian Art, Inc., ill. p. 71, number 8.
Provenance
Found in the Chaffee family's dress-up box; Robert G. Chaffee, Class of 1936 (1914-1986); given to present collection, 1959.
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