Moccasins | Photographer: Oleg Kuchar | Rights management: Museum Ulm
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalMoccasins | Photographer: Oleg Kuchar | Rights management: Museum Ulm
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A pair of moccasins made from brown leather with colourful beaded embroidery. The leather is ruffled at the front and sides of the shoe with a seam along the edge. A darker piece of leather is sewn onto the top, which is edged and embroidered with the glass beads. The inside is lined with fabric. The leather cover embroidered with beads is sewn around with a red piece of fabric. The shoes are typical of the Iroquois in the period between 1840 and 1920 and probably originate from the North American cultural area of the north-eastern woodlands. Glass beads were barter items for white traders and were used in large numbers by indigenous tribesmen, especially in the second half of the 19th century. These moccasins probably date from this period. The indigenous peoples of North America wore such shoes themselves or made them specifically for tourists. The shoes were donated to the collection in 1925 by the Ulm citizen Mathilde Hirsch.
