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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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