Moccasins
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Plains
about 1890
Native-tanned hide, rawhide, glass beads, sinew
Overall: 4 5/16 × 11 1/8 × 4 5/16 in. (11 × 28.3 × 11 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Seth Towse, Class of 1957
161.29.14735
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by an "elderly friend of the Towse family," in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, about 1885-1890; given to Seth Towse (1934-2010), Class of 1957, Loudonville, New York; given to present collection, 1961.
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