Beaded Moccasins and Leggings, circa 1910 21141 dark blue and white

dark blue and white

"Do Not Eavesdrop On My Songs"

image size is 18 x12 inches

The composition depicts a Southwestern landscape with a Native American woman on horseback in the desert near Chinle

Beaded Moccasins and Leggings, circa 1910 21141 dark blue and whiteEarly 20th century Northern Sioux moccasins and leggings. Constructed of native tanned hide with trade beads. Each moccasin has blue buffalo tracks on the vamp and teepee elements in green, yellow and red around the perimeter against a white field. The leggings are beaded around the cuffs with tepee motifs in dark and light blue with red on a white field, the hide is rubbed with yellow ochre.