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Woman’s Boots
Not on view
The green-stained leather on this pair of boots serves as a striking background for beadwork and rows of German-silver buttons. Complex linear, boxlike designs on the top of the moccasins contrast with triangular and diagonal bars running down the sides of the upper sections. Southern Plains women favored one-piece boots like these over a combination of moccasins and leggings. They wore the boots with painted-hide, and later trade-cloth, dresses.
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