Child's Moccasins
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains
1930s-1940s
Deer rawhide, native-tanned deer hide, glass beads, sinew, and lazy stitch beading
Overall: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Guido R. Rahr, Sr., Class of 1951P
985.47.26633
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Footwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
In graphite on sole "12.50"
Exhibition History
Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 19, 1987.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
Publication History
Barbara A. Hail and Gregory C. Schwarz, Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1987, p.78, no.165.
Provenance
Collected by Guido Reinhardt Rahr, Sr. (1902-1985), Manitowoc, Wisconsin; given to present collection, 1985.
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