Native American Technology and Art

Native American Varieties of Moccasins - Lenape


Modern Lenape (Delaware) moccasins. From the book Indian Paths of Pennsylvania, by Paul A. W. Wallace, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, 1987.

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Lenape, quilled toe and heel seam, ribbonwork cuffs, possibly done by ancestors of the Lenape who now live at Moraviantown, Ontario. Mocs. in Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, PA.
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Lenape, quilled toe and cuff. Cuffs also decorated with tin cones and red dyed deer hair. Nat. Mus. of Amer. Ind. (NMAI) no. 3/6411.
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Lenape moccasins, quilled. NMAI no. 19/630.
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Lenape, especially nice with quilled toe and heel. Ribbon edge on cuff, cuff decorated with white beads. Documentation shows that these were collected from the family of Black Beaver, but probably go back many years before his time. Private collection.
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A picture of my late aunt Nora Thompson Dean (Touching Leaves Woman) who founded Touching Leaves Indian Crafts. She is cleaning some Indian potatoes in her Lenape deerhide clothing. She realized of course that the Lenape women like most Indian women usually went with no upper body covering, but it became necessary to cover up so as not to "offend" the whites. Nora had a sarcastic remark about that subject one time. She said, "When the Europeans arrived and found the Lenape women dressed comfortably in just wrap-around skirts they called them 'naked savages.' Now, some three hundred years later I have been to what use to be our beaches and found the white women in string bikinis, some even stretched out topless. Are they now the naked savages?"
This image & description has been generously provided by Jim Rementer of Touching Leaves

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