Pair of Child's Moccasins
1885-1895
Interior Salish
Arts of the Americas
Vivid blue captures the eye in these Salish or Kootenai child’s moccasins and Sioux storage bag. The blue seed beads on both objects are made of glass colored with cobalt blue. Native women made all the clothing and furnishings for their families and eagerly adopted beads as decorative embellishments because of the vast array of colors and greater convenience.
- Maker/Artist
- Interior Salish
- Classification
- Clothing
- Formatted Medium
- Smoked hide, beads, cut steel beads
- Locations
- Place made: Montana, United States
- Dimensions
- 7 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. (19.1 x 7.9 cm)
- Departments
- Arts of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 43.201.72a-b
- Credit Line
- Anonymous gift in memory of Dr. Harlow Brooks
- Exhibitions
- Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains, Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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