Green and White Beaded Buckskin Ute Moccasins
Historical artifact -- Moccasins;Moccasins, Beaded
Identifier:
B739
Description
Green and White Beaded Buckskin Ute Moccasins. These moccasins have a sawtooth fringe around the ankle and a square tongue. The moccasins are almost entirely beaded, only the tongue and a space above and below a line of green beads around the ankle are unbeaded. The background beading on the design is white, with two green horn-like shapes pointing down from either side of the tongue. In between the green horns, there are two pairs of blue triangles pointing at a black rectangle filled with blue and red in between them. The black block has two red and white shapes bordering it on each long side. Around the edge of the shoe, the patterns consist of two alternating designs. The first pattern is a stack of two blue triangles with red outlining the top. The next is a stack of three rectangles, half yellow and half blue divided straight up the center, stacked in a staircase pattern. At the toe of the moccasin there are blue rectangles arranged in an arrow pattern with a black diamond at the tip. The ankles are decorated in a line of green beading from one side of the tongue, stretching around the ankle till the other side of the tongue. According to the gift deed, the moccasins were donated by Esther Knowles who received them from Joe Jim and Jocy Jim, members of the Ute tribe living in a 'wick-e-up on the south of the Collbran Cemetery Hill.' The gift deed and an email from the grandson of a friend of the donor asserts that the moccasins were made by Jocy Jim.
Content Date:
late 1800s - early 1900s
