Huron coat, capote
Huron coat, capote
Huron coat, capote
A Huron-Wendat coat, or capote, with gusseted back made with white blanket wool. Red wool cloth bound with silk ribbon and embroidered with moosehair is sewn at the collar, epaulettes and cuffs, with an edging of tin cones with dyed moosehair along the peak of the hood. Part of a Huron-Wendat outfit at the National Museum of Denmark.
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white woollen cloth (blanket wool); red silk binding; red silk-covered buttons; moosehair; red woollen cloth; blue woollen cloth, green silk ribbon; green silk lining; yellow blue-green ribbons; purple silk ribbon; tin cones;
The coat is made of unlined white woollen (blanket woollen) cloth with red silk binding on edging for opening. The red wool collar is sewn to the coat, lined with green silk, edged with green silk ribbon and embroidered with moosehair. The sewn cuffs are made of moosehair embroidered red wool with green silk ribbon edging. The buttons are covered with red silk embroidered in moosehair. The epaulettes are made of pieces of red and blue cloth sewn in layers to the shoulder seams and edged with silk ribbon; the top piece is decorated with moosehair embroidery. Strips of red wool embroidered with moosehair and edged with silk ribbon are sewn to the opening of the hood; the strip applied to the top of the hood to the peak is edged with tin cones with dyed moosehair. Two full length hourglass-shaped gussets are at the back of the coat.
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Visit to National Museum of Denmark of Ruth Phillips, Norman Vorano and Alex Nahwegahbow assisted by Mille Gabriel and Anja Blok Jespersen on June 24, 2016.