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Moccasins

CultureOtoe (attrib.), Nebraska
Dateca. 1860
MediumBuckskin, leather, sinew, beads, and remains of red color
Dimensions.1 (left): 9 × 3 1/4 × 3 1/4 inches (22.86 × 8.26 × 8.26 cm)
.2 (right): 9 × 3 1/4 × 3 inches (22.86 × 8.26 × 7.62 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.68.1,2
On View
Not on view
DescriptionA pair of moccasins with floral design glass beadwork on the uppers.Exhibition History

Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art, Organized by the Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM, July 2015–2016.

Provenance

Collected in England by David Wooley;

With Morningstar Gallery, Santa Fe, NM;

Purchased by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), 1989;

His bequest to the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2010-2025;

The Coe Center's gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.


Published References

Bernstein, Bruce and Rachel de W. Wixom, Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art, (Santa Fe, NM, Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, Inc, 2015).

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Moccasins
ca. 1890
2014.39.6.A,B
pair overall on left with additional pair on right
ca. 1890
2014.39.1.A,B
Man's Moccasins
ca. 1895
2014.39.2.A,B
Woman's Moccasins
ca. 1890
2014.39.3.A,B
Man's Moccasins
ca. 1890
2014.39.4.A,B
Man's Moccasins
ca. 1890
2014.39.5.A,B
Woman's Moccasins
ca. 1890
2014.39.7.A,B
Man's Moccasins
ca. 1880
2014.39.8.A,B
Man's Moccasins
ca. 1885
2014.39.9.A,B
Man's Moccasins
ca. 1875
2014.39.11.A,B
Man's Moccasins
ca. 1880
2014.39.12.A,B
Man's Moccasins
ca. 1890
2014.39.13.A,B