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1886.21.6.1

Pair of deerskin moccasins with quillwork.

1886.21.6.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pair of deerskin moccasins with quillwork.
Cultural groups
Blackfoot Confederacy
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1865
Date collected
By 1865
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Deer Skin Animal, Material Quill, Process Quillwork
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.21.6.1 Accession number: 1886.21.6.2 Other numbers: Pope no. 7 Moc 24
Research and responses

According to the information written on the label of moccasin [.1] these objects were transferred from the University Museum even though they previously belonged to Dr Pope. However, the label on the object is not a label that dates from 1886, being more similar to those written in the 1940s. These objects have been assigned the accession number 1886.21.6 but if at a later date an additional pair of Dr Pope moccasins is found they will have to be given a new number. [DCF Court Team 24/3/2003]

For an account of the Charles A. Pope Collection, see 'Speaking for Themselves: The Pope Collection of Native American Artifacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, by Lindsey Richardson' (University of Oxford: M.Sc. dissertation in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 2001); copy in RDF (Collectors: Pope). [JC 6 1 2004]

In an email to Jeremy Coote dated 12 February 2017 (printout in RDF), Руслан Єндржиєвський (Ruslan Endrshievsky) notes that 'the quillwork on the rosette is performed in the single-bundle quill-wrapped horsehair technique', referring for further information to 'Quill-Wrapped Horsehair: Two Rare Quilling Techniques', by Bill Holm, in Studies in American Indian Art: A Memorial Tribute to Norman Feder, edited by Christian F. Feest (ERNAS Monographs 2; Altenstadt, Germany: European Review of Native American Studies, 2001), pp. 53-68, and to moccasions with rosettes in the Duke Paul von Württemberg collection in the Linden Museum in Stuttgart (accession number 12579). [JC 2 3 2017]

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