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Plains Beaded Hide Moccasins, Geometric Vamp Panel
Plains, North America
1880
Native hide, glass beads, sinew
Length 9 3/4" (24.8 cm)
Provenance: Yoshi Miyake, New York
Plains moccasins with geometric beaded vamp panels represent the broadest category of late 19th century Native footwear, the construction and bead placement varying by nation while the underlying structure of brain-tanned or buffalo hide with sinew-sewn beadwork at the toe and vamp remained consistent across the northern and southern Plains. The geometric cross and rectangular motifs visible on this pair are shared across multiple Plains beadwork traditions, making precise tribal attribution without additional documentation a matter of careful comparison rather than certainty. Moccasins produced in 1880 represent the period of most active Plains beadwork production, before reservation-era economic pressures began to shift women's work toward trade production.
This pair is beaded at the vamp with geometric cross and rectangular motifs in green, red, white, and dark tones on a natural hide ground, sinew-sewn with the tall worn hide upper forming a cuff at the ankle. The hide has developed a pale tone through age and use, the beadwork panel intact and consistent. Provenance traces to Yoshi Miyake of New York.
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Plains, North America
1880
Native hide, glass beads, sinew
Length 9 3/4" (24.8 cm)
Provenance: Yoshi Miyake, New York
Plains moccasins with geometric beaded vamp panels represent the broadest category of late 19th century Native footwear, the construction and bead placement varying by nation while the underlying structure of brain-tanned or buffalo hide with sinew-sewn beadwork at the toe and vamp remained consistent across the northern and southern Plains. The geometric cross and rectangular motifs visible on this pair are shared across multiple Plains beadwork traditions, making precise tribal attribution without additional documentation a matter of careful comparison rather than certainty. Moccasins produced in 1880 represent the period of most active Plains beadwork production, before reservation-era economic pressures began to shift women's work toward trade production.
This pair is beaded at the vamp with geometric cross and rectangular motifs in green, red, white, and dark tones on a natural hide ground, sinew-sewn with the tall worn hide upper forming a cuff at the ankle. The hide has developed a pale tone through age and use, the beadwork panel intact and consistent. Provenance traces to Yoshi Miyake of New York.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.