Pair of Beaded Hide Moccasins
Pair of Beaded Hide Moccasins
Place of OriginNorth America
Date18th Century
Dimensions9 3/4 × 4 1/2 × 4 in. (24.8 × 11.4 × 10.2 cm) [each, both moccasins are approximately the same size]
Mediumhide, silk, glass beads, tin, dyed yarn
ClassificationTextiles and Fiber
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange
Object number
2023.360A-B
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 18
DescriptionEach moccasin is composed of a single piece of finely tanned hide, seamed up the back with cotton thread and overlaid with pink silk, the wide cuffs decorated with pink and blue silk, thread sewn with white glass beadwork; tin cones inserted with red wool yarn pendants on the vamp and cuffs.
Published ReferencesPhillips, Ruth B. and Dale Idiens, “‘A Casket of Savage Curiosities’: Eighteenth-century Objects from Northeastern North America in the Farquharson Collection,” Journal of the History of Collections, 1994, vol. 6, no. 1.
late 18th century
late 18th century
late 18th century
mid 18th century
250-150 BCE
mid 18th century
early 18th century
c. 1850
mid 18th century
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