Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 2596BLocation: BostonDate / Time: May 12, 2012 10:00AM
Description:
Pair of Cheyenne Beaded Hide Moccasins with Sitting Bull Attribution, c. 1870s, partially beaded with geometric designs and with parfleche soles, lg. 9 3/4 in.
Note: Includes a framed card that reads, "Big Horn City-Montana, Dec. 21st, 1881, from the red man to his white brother-Christmas greetings, I send you by mail today my old moccasins to please white brother-accept as a Christmas present and place among your antiquities. Sitting Bull."
Estimate $1,500-2,000