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  Moccasins decorated with beads and silk ribbon layers about the ankles are often associated with the tribes of the Great Lakes. This pair of moccasins was found at the Niagara Falls in the middle of last century.

      Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat of western Delaware, wearing the feminine traditional Delaware dress, characterized by heavy necklaces , silver pins and moccasins “covered” by pony beads (circa 1910-15).

  A pair of moccasins collected at Hidatsa at the beginning of our century by anthropologist Gilbert Wilson, who was able to avail himself of the collaboration of the elders in the transcribing of the tribe’s history and customs. The disks on the uppers made with porcupine spines are in …

  Corn Dance in Santa Clara, 1950 Two dancers leave the northern kiva to enter the plaza of Santa Clara, one of the tewa pueblos. They participate in the Corn Dance; the woman wears the typical tablet headdress and a wool cloak with an interwoven wool and cotton belt and …