Native American & Western: The Collection of James and Joyce Huber (Sale #343)
Lot 235:
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Two Guns White Calf (Blackfeet, 1872-1934) Beaded Moccasins and Image
(3) total items including the pair of tanned hide moccasins partially decorated in a lazy stitch beaded geometric symbolic pattern, having trade cloth trim and signed to a sole using the pictographic cypher of the Piegan Blackfeet chief, an offset copy of a 1927 photograph by T. J. Hileman (American, 1882-1945) ink signed and dated by Hileman and by Two Guns White Calf using his pictographic cypher, matted behind glass in an 11 by 14-inch wood frame; together with an arrowhead shaped copper pendant having ‘Grand Council / North American Indian / Denver 1915’ above an inset Indian Head 5c, which Two Guns White Calf believed was a portrait of himself
Provenance: High Noon Western Americana, Lot #60 January 28th, 2012
Property from: The Collection of James and Joyce Huber, Hartland, Wisconsin
Height: 3 1/2 inches, Length: 10 1/4 inches, Width: 3 inches (each moccasin)
Condition: moccasins having overall light wear consistent with normal use, leather supple, no damage to framed item noted, light wear to frame, pendant and nickel worn
Disclaimers: not examined out of frame
Category: Collectibles > Ethnographic
Estimated Sale Time: 12:13 pm CST
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Last modified: August 18, 2025, 10:33 am
Condition report:
moccasins having overall light wear consistent with normal use, leather supple, no damage to framed item noted, light wear to frame, pendant and nickel worn
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