These high heeled shoes are elaborately decorated with traditional Santee Sioux motifs. With the introduction of Europeans onto the continent, new materials, designs, and clothing were traded between two previously unknown people. Ultimately, this led to a cultural coalescence that is still progressing today.
Moccasins
Unknown
Northern Plains, Santee
circa 1880
Leather, silk, glass beads
1982.27.06
On View
