Pair of moccasins of moose skin decorated with silk thread and piped with dyed horsehair: North America, Plains, possibly Cree, 19th century

Moccasin, part of a chief's costume of buckskin with painted decoration and quill embroidery, associated with Chief Wanatak: North America, Plains, Sioux

Moccasin, part of a chief's costume of buckskin with painted decoration and quill embroidery, associated with Chief Wanatak: North America, Plains, Sioux

Moccasin of reindeer leather ornamented with parti-coloured quillwork: North America, Plains

Man's moccasin, one of a pair, of reindeer leather, with uppers covered with beadwork and stripes of dyed quillwork: North America, USA, Dakota, Sioux, mid - late 19th century

Man's moccasin, one of a pair, of reindeer leather, with uppers covered with beadwork and stripes of dyed quillwork: North America, USA, Dakota, Sioux, mid - late 19th century

Woman's moccasin, one of a pair, of buckskin embroidered entirely with beads and decorated with silk ribbon, wool tassels, and tin cones: North America, Canada, Alberta, Fort Macleod, Kainai-Blood, late 19th century

Woman's moccasin, one of a pair, of buckskin embroidered entirely with beads and decorated with silk ribbon, wool tassels, and tin cones: North America, Canada, Alberta, Fort Macleod, Kainai-Blood, late 19th century

Moccasin of moose leather with reindeer leather top ornamented with a symbolic design in dyed goose quillwork: North America, Canada, probably Cree

Moccasin of moose leather with reindeer leather top ornamented with a symbolic design in dyed goose quillwork: North America, Canada, probably Cree

Moccasin of moose leather: North America, Canada, Saskatchewan or Alberta, Athapaskan

Moccasin of moose leather: North America, Canada, Saskatchewan or Alberta, Athapaskan

Moccasin of tanned moose skin, with tanned caribou skin vamps: North America, Canada, Alberta, Fort Chipewyan, c. 1859

Moccasin, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin of two-piece form with added ankle flaps and drawstring thong ties, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

Moccasin, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin of two-piece form with added ankle flaps and drawstring thong ties, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860

One of a pair of man's winter moccasins of tanned moose skin with vamps, ankle flaps and thongs of tanned caribou skin, applied vamps embroidered with a floral motif in blue, yellow, pink and green sewing silk: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Slavey