Ruth Demmert, Virginia Oliver, and Florence Sheakley made the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. These moccasins feature size 10 beads and the inner lining looks like baby seal fur. Florence commented that her mother used to make this kind of slipper with a high top for male dancers.

From card: "Carved with figure of eagle with outstretched wings. Clasp fastening."The eagle appears to depict or be inspired by the Heraldic eagle with outspread wings and shield on its chest that is used on the Great Seal of the United States and that has appeared on early U.S. Peace Medals and various U.S. coins, etc..