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children's moccasins
children's moccasins
children's moccasins
Children's moccasins made of smoked, tanned deer-hide, porcupine quills (blue and red), and cotton thread. Each shoe is made of a single piece of hide, with a centre seam and stitched with black thread. Collected by Martin Pitzer, this item is currently housed at the Weltmuseum Wien in Vienna, Austria.
In Martin Pitzer's "Index of Objects and Woks of an American Indian Tribe in the Far North, Together With a Description of the Same," he writes that the items in this book are from "the north ‐ eastern part of North America, and is called the tribe of the Otawahs, or Ottawas" (35).
GRASAC research notes created during an onsite visit to Weltmuseum in January of 2016.
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Smoked, tanned deerhide; porcupine quills (blue and red); cotton thread.
Centre seam; single piece of hide with centre seam, stitched with black thread; quilled band in zigzag wrapped around two strands of white cotton thread that covers the centre seam, but some quills have fallen off, exposing the seam; two pieces form the cuff with a zigzag-cut edging.
Martin Pitzer collected this item, possibly when he travelled to the Great Lakes in the 1850s.
Provenance
Austrian church painter Martin Pitzer travelled to the Great Lakes region, to "the Ottawa villages of Arbre Croche and Cross Village" in the early 1850s. He collected a significant number of items and brought them back to Austria to be part of an exhibition to raise money for the mission.
About This GRASAC Record
Unknown Odawa artist, moccassins. Currently in the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 131760ab. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip January 2016; GRASAC item id 59045.
In January of 2016, a small team of GRASAC researchers visited the collection to study and photograph it: Ruth Phillips, Lisa Truong, Naomi Recollet (Anishinaabe (Odawa/Ojibwe), Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory) and Wahsontiio Cross (Mohawk, Kahnawake). This GKS record was created in January of 2022 by GRASAC RA Aidan Mitchell-Boudreau.