Object Details
- Culture/People
- Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
- Previous owner
- Chief Peo Peo Tholekt (Peopeotahlikt/Peo Peo T'olikt/Peo-Peo-Ta-Lakt/George Peo-peo-tah-likt/Bird Alighting), Niimíipuu (Nez Perce), 1857-1935
- Joseph O. Evans (Joe S. Evans), Non-Indian, 1888-1961
- Pauline Evans (Mrs. Joseph Evans), Non-Indian, 1888-1960
- Possible owner
- Sacajawea Museum
- Previous owner
- The Museum Shop (L.O. Gannon & Son Galleries and Bookshop [after 1969]/Museum Shop Mabton)
- Seller
- The Museum Shop (L.O. Gannon & Son Galleries and Bookshop [after 1969]/Museum Shop Mabton)
- Seller agent
- Dr. William L. Gannon (William Louis Gannon), Non-Indian, 1919-1985
- Collection History
- Said to have been owned by Niimíipuu (Nez Perce) chief Peo Peo Tholekt (Peopeotahlikt, 1857-1935); formerly in the collection of Joseph O. Evans (Joe S. Evans, 1888-1961) and his wife Pauline Evans (1888-1960), who collected items related to Niimíipuu history and culture from the 1930s onward and operated the Sacajawea Museum in Spalding, Idaho; acquired by The Museum Shop, a book and antique shop in Mabton, Washington, owned by William L. Gannon (1919-1985), at an unknown date; purchased by MAI from The Museum Shop in 1961.
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- Date created
- circa 1880
- Catalog Number
- 22/9590
- Barcode
- 229590.000
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Footwear
- Object Name
- Man's moccasins
- Media/Materials
- Deerhide/deerskin, glass bead/beads, hide thong/babiche, cotton thread
- Techniques
- Sewn, overlay beadwork, lazy/lane stitch beadwork
- Dimensions
- 25 x 12 x 20 cm
- Place
- Idaho; USA
- See related items
- Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
- Clothing/Garments: Footwear
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Plains & Plateau
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_244315
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6ebdcaddc-80e3-4c8b-900d-dd18cebeee96
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