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November 7, 2015 10:00 AMCalender
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Pair of Assiniboine Beaded Hide Moccasins

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$2,214$1,800
Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 2862BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 07, 2015 10:00AM

Description:

Pair of Assiniboine Beaded Hide Moccasins, c. 1870s, with red trade cloth cuffs, buffalo rawhide soles, and beaded with geometric designs on a pink background, lg. 10 1/2 in.

Provenance: Collected by the present owner's ancestor, Galen C. Cline, M.D., "taken when on duty as a surgeon, U.S Army, ft. Assiniboine, Montana, 1876."
Estimate $1,000-1,500


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Galen C. Cline