A pair of Eastern Great Lakes decorated caribou hooves
Huron or Cree, fashioned as wall hangings from the skin and foot of caribou legs and suspended on braided trade cloth loops, each decorated with two trade cloth and dyed buckskin panels embroidered with floral sprays in red, blue and ivory dyed moose hair, each panel further adorned with beaded tin cone drops with orange/red and natural deer hair fringe.
each approximately: height 17in, width 5in
Provenance
The Collection of Jay C. Leff
Sold at Sotheby's New York, May 21, 1996, sale 6853, Fine American Indian Art, lot 133
Economos Works of Art, Santa Fe, NM,
An American Collection, acquired from the above in 1996
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Huron or Cree, fashioned as wall hangings from the skin and foot of caribou legs and suspended on braided trade cloth loops, each decorated with two trade cloth and dyed buckskin panels embroidered with floral sprays in red, blue and ivory dyed moose hair, each panel further adorned with beaded tin cone drops with orange/red and natural deer hair fringe.
each approximately: height 17in, width 5in
Provenance
The Collection of Jay C. Leff
Sold at Sotheby's New York, May 21, 1996, sale 6853, Fine American Indian Art, lot 133
Economos Works of Art, Santa Fe, NM,
An American Collection, acquired from the above in 1996
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