Moccasins

Ka'igwu (Kiowa)
Southern Plains
Plains

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about 1890

Native-tanned hide, rawhide, glass beads, paint, sinew, thread

Overall: 2 3/4 × 10 1/4 × 3 3/8 in. (7 × 26 × 8.5 cm)

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

46.17.9860

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Clothing: Footwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Plains

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, on bottom, in black ink: "WXX" " a [illegible]"

Provenance

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Oklahoma, 1902-1904; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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