Man's Moccasins
Unknown Artist
A pair of leather moccasins, embroidered on the upper surfaces with white, pink, green, purple, red, and light blue glass and metal beads; rawhide soles with remnants of painted design. The majority of beaded surface is white, with an alternating pink and green stripe around the edge of the foot and blue and green double diamond pattern down center of top of moccasin.
Purchase: the Donald D. Jones Fund for American Indian Art
c. 1890
Native leather, rawhide, glass and metal beads and pigment
4.9 x 3.6 x 10.5 in
2002.23.A,B
Image and text: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2023
Where you'll find this
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Permanent collection