Cree Pair of Quilled Hide Moccasins

James T. Hooper, Arundel, Sussex

Thence by family descent

Christie’s, London, June 23, 1992, lot 130, consigned by the above

John W. Painter, Indian Hill, Ohio, acquired at the above auction

Sotheby’s, New York, May 8, 2006, lot 91, consigned by the above

American Private Collection, acquired at the above auction

Steven Phelps, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas: The James Hooper Collection, London, 1976, p. 345, pl. 205, cat. no. 1636 (one illustrated), and p. 448, cat. no. 1636 (listed)

Esther Bockhoff and David Hunt, Tribes of the Buffalo: A Swiss Artist on the American Frontier, Cleveland, 1994, p. 23, cat. no. 12

John W. Painter, A Window on the Past: Early Native American Dress from the John Painter Collection, Cincinnati, 2002, p. 15, fig. 6

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, A Window on the Past: Early Native American Dress from the John Painter Collection, April 8 – July 24, 1994, and traveling: The Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, January 27 – March 26, 1995; The Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, March 23 – September 8, 1996; The Buffalo Museum of Natural Sciences, October 11, 1996 – January 5, 1997; The Cincinnati Art Museum, August 8 – November 30, 1997

The Cincinnati Art Museum, A Window on the Past: Early Native American Dress from the John Painter Collection, October 18, 2002 – March 30, 2003

A similar pair of moccasins from the collection of Arthur Speyer are illustrated in Ted J. Brasser, “Bo’jou, Neejee!” Profiles of Canadian Indian Art, Ottawa, 1976, p. 107, pl. 77; another related pair, donated to the British Museum in the 1860s by Henry Christy, are illustrated in Jonathan C. King, Thunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in North America, 1600-1900, London, 1982, p. 44, pl. 49 (acc. no. Am.2599.a-b; https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am-2599-a-b).

For other related moccasins, see the pair sold in these rooms on January 18, 2023, lot 774 (https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/american-indian-art/pair-of-quilled-hide-moccasins-eastern-great-lakes); and the pair from the collection of the Earls of Harrowby, Sandon Hall, Staffordshire, sold in these rooms on November 12, 1992, lot 88.