Materials

Dyed and smoked moosehide; porcupine quill,red/orange, blue, white; metal; moosehair, orange/red. Vegetable fibre with possibly thread in the cones.

Techniques or Format

Quill work in zigzag stitch and oversewn or appliqued lines. The oversewn lines could be moosehair or quill.

Motifs and Patterns

Row of lozenge shapes filled with a spiral.Parallel lines of zigzag quill work.

Other Notes

There is only one, this is not a pair. The hide is more a dark brown than black.

Dimensions: 26 × 10 × 10 cm

Condition: Poor. Fragile. Considerable loss of cones, quill work. The hide is brittle and with some holes.

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

The material in the Bibliothèque nationale de France was collected before 1792. Autumn Epple believes it dates between 1700 and 1750 based on the materials and style.

Current Location: Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 71.1878.32.129

Link to Institution's Collections Database: www.quaibranly.fr

Collection Narratives and Histories

The ethnographic works from the Bibliothèque Nationale du France are located in the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. These ethnographic works were brought together in this collection at the time of the French Revolution, around 1792. Many of these works came from the Jardin du Roi, the collection of the French kings. In 1792, inventories were made of the possessions of aristocratic French families in Paris and the provinces and many objects were selected to be added to the Bibliothèque Nationale, which was the national collection of the new Republic. Ethnographic material from the Bibliothèque Nationale was located at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro, then the Musée de l’Homme, and is now in the Musée du quai Branly.AD.

Related language items in the GKS: mkizin

GKS Reference Number: 1364

How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, moccasin. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1878.32.129. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 1364.

Record Creation Context

This record was created by Anne de Stecher during an RAship for Prof. Ruth Phillips.

deStecher, Annette. Engaged Histories: Wendat Women’s Souvenir Artsof Cultural Preservation and Entrepreneurial Invention. PhD dissertation. Ottawa: Carleton University, 2013.

Copyright

This record will be open on the completion of Anne de Stecher's dissertation,2011.