Tracks that Speak

Old West novelist and journalist Emerson Hough called the moccasin “one of the most interesting articles of all the Indian gear.” The story told by the moccasin, in its 19th-century form, was expressed by the nearly 40 moccasin collectibles that sold on the auction block at New Mexico’s Auction in Santa Fe on August 11-12. The symbolic figures crafted on these small canvases reflect the reality that the various tribal Indians were not working with flexible or adaptable materials, and