Medium: Oil Painting on linen
Price: Contact Southwestern Premier Artists
Description: Delaware Moccasins
These are Delaware moccasins are trade goods from 1870 circa. They are made of smoke tanned leather and beaded with Venetian glass beads that were traded by the French or English traders to the woodland First People. The beads lay on a dark brown velvet background. The inside of moccasins is made of muslin. The red border is cotton homespun. The First People’s work was sold to the European traders and travelers. The largest collection of this type of trade goods is in Switzerland. The largest collection in the United States in New Hampshire.
Judith purchased these moccasins in 1994 at a collectable shop in Taos, New Mexico. They are the most requested of all the subject matter in her commission paintings. Contact Judith Durr at studio,Mountain Studio, Inc.,P.O. Box 12, Cave Creek, AZ 85327, 480-595-2443.
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