Apache High-top Moccasins

Description:

Apache High-top Moccasins, c. 1890s, with thick rawhide soles, beaded with geometric designs, a cross on the vamp, and with lightning and plant-like designs, traces of blue pigment, (minor bead loss),lg. of soles 10, ht. approx. 13 in.

Provenance: Purportedly owned by Major General William Carter, Fort D.A. Russell, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Estimate $2,000-2,500


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