Materials

Made of caribou hide, red wool fabric, rose wool braid, green silk ribbon, cotton fabric, glass beads, sinew and thread.

Techniques or Format

Mocassin upper has a central seam and a horizontal seam at the toe. The red collar is bound with wool braid and edged with blue beads.

Motifs and Patterns

Vamp has a bilaterally symmetrical floral design with solidly beaded background. The remains of a green ribbon rosette is present on one moccasin. Black, rose and white beads create a decorative repetitive pattern.

Other Notes

Due to the worn condition of the moccasins, it is presumed that they were old when collected.

Condition: Moccasins are very worn and have been patched (which obscures the heel detail).

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

Cath Oberholtzer, "Material Culture of the Eeyou (Eastern-James Bay, Quebec Cree) Mistissini Expression or Regional Style?" Papers of the Thirty-sixth Algonquian Conference. Christoph Wolfart, editor. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 317.

Current Location: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. USA

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 2/8917

GKS Reference Number: 26329

How to Cite this Item

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Record Creation Context

Record created as part of practicum in fall 2008.