On View
Not on viewmoccasins
Artist
Penobscot
Dateca. 1850
Terms
- Moccasins
- Glass
- Silk Fiber
- Wool Fiber
- Leather
- Great Lakes
Dimensions6.35 × 8.89 × 19.05 cm (2 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Wesley P. Wilmot (2001)
Object number2002.9.9B
DescriptionPair of moccasins (a,b). Leather, silk, wool, glass beads. Child-sized moccasins worked along the top with red wool(red trade/annuity wool), green cotton, blue and gold silk panels outlined with rows of tiny (1/32) white glass beads, chain stitch floral design and double curve motif worked in blue and gold silk thread. Border of green silk with a row of tiny glass beads and double row of 1/8" white glass beads.
Collections
- Historic Clothing
Object number: T100.1
Rebeckah (Rebeckah Wheeler Bulkeley Prescott) Wheeler
1660-1670
Object number: PER1133.2C