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Southern Girls
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Southern Girls

Artist (born 1970 Lander, Wyoming; lives Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Date2006
Mediumglass seed beads, thread, high-top converse sneakers
Dimensionseach: 9 1/4 × 11 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (23.5 × 28.6 × 11.4 cm)
ClassificationsTextile, Fiber Arts, & Beadwork
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the estate of Ruth and Sidney Schultz
Object numberPC2022.44.165.A-B
DescriptionA pair of beaded high-top sneakers featuring women wearing regalia and dancing on each side of the sneakers. The women face inwards, with their backs visible. The background is filled with maroon beads on the sides, black and turquoise stripes on the backs, and pink beads on the tongues of the sneakers. The sneakers have white laces and white rubber soles with pink stripes.
On View
Not on view
Ulysses S. Grant of Placitas, New Mexico
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