Moccasins

Moccasins

Moccasins

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Introduction

A pair of moccasins with fur trim and inset vamps decorated with silk embroidery. According to museum documentation they are probably Cree or Sioux.

Nation of Maker: Sioux Cree Eeyou (Eastern James Bay Quebec Cree) Maskêkowiyiniwak (Swampy Cree) Mushkegowuk (Western James Bay Cree) Omushkego (Winisk-Swampy Cree)
Nation of Origin

Based on museum documentation

Summary of Source(s) for this Relative

Museum documentation and observations made by the GRASAC research team.

Materials

Unsmoked hide, beaver fur, well worn , silk embroidery thread in green, purple, pink, red and white; cotton tape, black.

Techniques or Format

Each T-heel seamed moccasin has a small inset small surrounded by black cotton tape, used as a trim inserted into the vamp seam to form piping. The vamp is decorated by silk embroidery. There is beaver fur trim on the cuffs.

Motifs and Patterns

Circles, four-lobed motifs, leaf motifs.

Other Notes

A tag on the moccasins says: "Mocassin (one of a pair) buckskin with rabbit fur trimmings, from North America, Eastern Woodlands, possibly Sioux;".Cory Willmott: moccasins have both fur trim and cuff.

Condition: Good, well worn.
Current Location: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Scotland
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: ETHNN.154.1[1] and [2]
GKS Reference Number: 26587
Record Creation Notes/Observations

9 Apr 2007 Ruth Phillips, On-site researchers: Cory Willmott, Heidi Bohaker, Laura Peers, Ruth Phillips, Keith Jamieson, Alan Corbiere, Alison Brown, Patricia Allan

Approximate Place of Origin

44.736, -88.788

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