Pair of Moccasins

Textiles

1875/1900

Santee Sioux
Plains, North America

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Santee Dakota
Title: Pair of Moccasins
Place: Plains (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1875–1900
Medium: Hide, stitched with animal product; embroidered with porcupine-quill-wrapped cotton in buttonhole stitches; beaded with glass beads; tassels of cotton, metal, and feathers
Dimensions: a: 9.3 × 26.8 × 13.8 cm (3 5/8 × 10 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.); b: 8.8 × 29.2 × 13.6 cm (3 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. J. Ogden Armour through the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1933.929a-b
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John W. Keefe, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 224, cat. 300 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23-June 19, 1977, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Navajo Blankets, June 1-Oct. 28, 1985.
Art Institute of Chicago, Allerton and Cheney Galleries, A Birthday Celebration-100 Years of Antiquarian Society Textile Collecting: 1890-1990, Sept. 11, 1991-Feb. 17, 1992.

Lolita Sheldon Armour (also Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, died 1953), Chicago and Lake Forest, IL, by 1933 [incoming receipt R5419, Sept. 18, 1933; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

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