A Pair of Cree or Metis Embroidered Hide Moccasins

composed of very finely tanned hide, silk and cotton thread.

Native Paths: American Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998

 

First American Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art, Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, New York, April 24, 2004 - October 31, 2005

Allen Wardwell, ed., Native Paths: American Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998, p. 52, no. 43

 

Bruce Bernstein and Gerald McMaster, First American Indian Art: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art, Washington, DC, New York, 2004, p. 228, cat. no. 177

Very good original condition. Remains of purplish pigment on the cuff of each moc, once painted, color bleed (?)
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