Pair of Women's Shoes
CultureLakota (Teton Sioux), North or South Dakota
Dateca. 1920
MediumCommercial canvas and leather shoes with glass and metallic beads
DimensionsEach: 4 1/2 × 3 1/8 × 10 1/2 inches (11.43 × 7.94 × 26.67 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: Kay and John Callison Art Acquisition Fund
Object number2018.15.1,2
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DescriptionA pair of stacked women's commercial heels covered with beadwork in traditional Lakota moccasin designs.Exhibition HistoryThe Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, musee du quai Branly, Paris, France, April 7 - July 20, 2014; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, March 2 - May 10, 2015.
Mr. John and Mrs. Marva Warnock, Los Altos, CA;
Purchased from Trotta-Bono, Ltd. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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