National Museum of American History
American Flag Moccasins, 1870s
Grant, Ulysses S. · pre 1877
A delegation of Plains Indians gave these beaded moccasins to President Ulysses S. Grant during a 1870s peace conference in Washington, D.C. The design unites motifs and forms from both cultures as a powerful statement of hopeful coexistence.
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