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Moccasins

Artist Eva B. St. Clair Washakie McAdams (Shoshone, 1927 - 2010)
CultureShoshone-Bannock, Wyoming
Dateca. 1989-1990
MediumRawhide and glass beads
Dimensions.1 (Left): 4 × 4 3/8 × 11 inches (10.16 × 11.11 × 27.94 cm)
.2 (Right): 3 3/4 × 4 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (9.53 × 10.8 × 28.58 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.82.1,2
On View
Not on view
DescriptionA pair of moccasins with a buffalo motif beaded on the vamps.Exhibition History

Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM, July 3, 2017–February 12, 2019.


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

Eva McAdams, Shoshone, Wind River Reservation, WY, ca. 1989-1990;

Purchased from Rex Arrowsmith by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), 1991;

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.

 


Krumrine, Mary Louise and Ralph T. Coe, Art and the Native American: Perception, Reality, and Influence. Art and Indian Culture at the Crossroads of a New Century: A Postlude to the Exhibition “Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art, 1965–1985, (Pennsylvania State University, 2002), fig. 8-12.




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