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Moccasins

CultureKiowa, Oklahoma
Dateca. 1870
MediumDeer hide, hardened natural hide, various trade cloths, and beads
Dimensions.1 (Left, stuffed and without fringe): 3 1/2 × 4 × 11 1/4 inches (8.89 × 10.16 × 28.58 cm)
.2 (Right, stuffed and without fringe): 3 1/4 × 4 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (8.26 × 11.43 × 29.21 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.87.1,2
On View
Not on view
DescriptionA pair of beaded moccasins with fringed 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

Purchased from Toby Herbst, Galisteo, NM by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), 2005;

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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