Pair of Moccasins

Provenance

Lolita Sheldon Armour (also Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, died 1953), Chicago and Lake Forest, IL, by 1933 [incoming receipt R5419, Sept. 18, 1933; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Pair of Moccasins

Arapaho

c. 1885

Accession Number

15937

Medium

Doe skin, sewn with sinew; decorated with beads

Dimensions

a: 7.1 × 22.3 × 9.4 cm (2 3/4 × 8 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.); b: 6.9 × 22.3 × 9.3 cm (2 3/4 × 8 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. J. Ogden Armour through the Antiquarian Society