Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 2319Location: BostonDate / Time: May 13, 2006 10:00AM
Description:
Central Plains Beaded Hide and Cloth Child's Moccasins, Lakota, c. 1900, the hard sole forms with multicolored geometric devices, with cloth ankle wraps, lg. 5 3/4 in.
Provenance: Collected by Henry W. Fischer, a Presbyterian minister who rode a circuit in South Dakota from c. 1906 to 1911/1912. He was based out of the town of MacIntosh and also in the Meadows area. Then through family descent to the present owner.
Estimate $400-600