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moccasins
A Winnebago bag, predominantly red in colour, consisting mainly of diamond-shaped patterns. Obtained at Black River Falls in Wisconsin.
This rectangular pouch is made of blackened hide and features decorative work. The design featured on the front and the faux flap of the pouch is likely made of quill but could also be moosehair, and is made up of small circles, wavy lines and
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A women's hair wrap decorated with glass beads and silk ribbons. Collected by William Jones from a Mesquakie woman near Tama, Iowa.
This ancestor is made of an unidentified plant fibre base and has a quill and moose hair covering. It is a five-sided shape. Two of the sides have a white beaded edge, and the third side features wrapping. The longest beaded sides and the wrapped
A pair of garters; attributed to the Odawa of the Great Lakes region.
A pair of moccasins; attributed to the Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee, Great Lakes region; obtained prior to 1834.
This ancestor resembles a bird with its long, pointed beak and curved back and what appears to be a tail. Its body is made of smoothed stone in a light brown colour, with traces of marbled light grey on its beak and body. There are
Polished adze blade, green in colour, blade is a gouge-shape (chisel)
This is a "Glengarry bonnet" made of black velveteen with red cotton tape binding and a pink polished cotton lining. The interior is stiffened with cardboard. The beads are smallish white seed beads, with a mix of translucent and greasy beads in white, turquoise, teal
Pair of beavertail style snowshoes. Frame in wood, mesh in tendon. Three red marks painted from rim onto mesh on each side
High sided birchbark basket. ?Spruce root used for seams. Porcupine quills are interwoven into a decorative border on the rim and the decorative binding at four quadrants of the rim is made of very coarse black animal hair and what appears to be red wool
Crooked knife with wooden handle with tapered butt, and curved metal blade tied on with twine. The direction of the upward curve in relation to the blade indicates this is a knife for a right-handed user. This type of knife is common among Northeast Woodlands
Scalping knife? Butt cut into shape of face. Sheath with double line of quillwork along opening front and single quill along two long edges. Two thongs with quill wrapping on lower edge. Small wrapping of hide attached to front.