Pair of Child's Mocassins

Textiles

c. 1885

Possibly Sioux
Plains, North America

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Oceti Sakowin
Title: Pair of Child's Mocassins
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 1875–1895
Medium: Buffalo rawhide, sewn with sinew; decorated with beads
Dimensions: a: 6 × 14.5 × 7.1 cm (2 3/8 × 5 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.); b: 5.6 × 14.5 × 6.6 cm (2 1/4 × 5 3/4 × 2 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. J. Ogden Armour through the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1933.930a-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), 232.

Art Institute of Chicago, Navajo Blankets, June 1-Oct. 28, 1985.

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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