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View full screenMoccasin, part of a chief's costume of buckskin with painted decoration and quill embroidery, associated with Chief Wanatak: North America, Plains, Sioux
A.1942.1 D
North America
Early 19th century
Sioux
Athapaskan
Buckskin; painted decoration and quill embroidery
Previous owner: Wanatak, 1837 (d.)
Original recipient of costume: Kelso Museum
Johnson, M.G. and Taylor, C.F., Early Warrior Costume of the Sioux and Blackfeet, English Westerners Society, London, 1983
Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979