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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