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Moccasins









Moccasins
Iroquois, 1850-1875

Iroquois women continued to make traditional objects, such as these moccasins, to wear on dress occasions. Moccasins were also popular with non-Native clientele, who considered them both exotic and unmistakably "native" and yet could wear them at home as house slippers.

Tanned hide, commercial cotton and silk, glass, paper, silver; L 23.0 x W 9.5 x H 7.0 cm; 35068-66 a & b, gift of Dr. James B. Richardson III