These moccasins are made of black dyed deer hide on body with designs in red, blue, and white moose hair and burgandy silk edging around cuff. Dark brown linen thread is also used.

It is constructed with overlap vamp over puckers, t-heel seam, and lie down cuff. The ribbon edging extends to a little bow at the vamp.

The embroidery design on the vamp and cuffs features a border of three lines of moose hair, slight half moons on the vamp, two lines of deep scallops on cuff, and one straight line. The stylized floral and curved linear pattern of moose hair makes geometric shapes, interspersed with little dots.

1840-1870, stylistic and materials

The moccasins were collected by Pickering and Capt. Harding.

Unknown Huron-Wendat artist, moccasins. Currently in the British Museum, Am,+.6995.a-b. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 27047.

This record was created as part of a Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC) research trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum and British Museum, Dec.8-22, 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunties Fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).