Beautiful Shoes - the Wyoming State Museum

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Right and Left Unlike early European shoes that were made exactly alike, most moccasins were specifically made for the right or left foot. Child's Moccasins Flathead Tribe 1921.1.59 Child's Shoes 1880 - 1890 1959.31.6
Quillwork Decoration Quillwork used porcupine quills to create designs on leather. It was used for geometric designs because round shapes were hard to create. Quillwork was generally done by wrapping prepared quills around threads stitched to the piece being decorated. Drawings of Two-Thread, One Quill Sewing Drawing Credit: Barbara Hail, Hau, Kola! The Plains Indian Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology University of Washington Press, 1993 Quillwork Detail Lakota Tribe 1977.70.16
Page 1 and 2: Beautiful Shoes Moccasin with Twist
Page 3 and 4: Side-seam moccasins have soft soles
Page 5 and 6: Two-piece, hard-soled moccasins wer
Page 7: Cuffs Cuffs were often added to moc
Page 11 and 12: Bead Stitching Lazy Stitch The easi
Page 13 and 14: Spot Stitch On the northern plains,
Page 15 and 16: Peyote Stitch In the South, the Com
Page 17 and 18: Bead Design Names Most bead designs
Page 19 and 20: Buffalo Tracks Design This long, cu
Page 21 and 22: Fully-Beaded Moccasins In the early
Page 23 and 24: Triangles Triangle designs represen
Page 25 and 26: Tripe Design This bead design of re
Page 27 and 28: Feather Design Two-color, elongated
Page 29 and 30: Floral Designs Floral designs are o
Page 31: Contemporary Moccasins Moccasins co

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