moccasins

moccasins

moccasins

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Date Made or Date Range: /1913
Materials

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Other Notes

Pair, made from tanned, lightly smoked skin. Basically 3-piece construction - a main foot piece seamed vertically at the heel, and seamed and gathered down centre front to toe; and two additional rectangles of skin sewn on either side of the ankle, forming down-turned flaps. At proximal end of front seam, a long thong is laced through, forming two ties. Sewing is with cotton thread.;;

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

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Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: III-I-920 a,b
Collection Narratives and Histories

1913/06/ - 1913/07/, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, (Waugh) One pair moccasins, Jim Huskin (Ca.)

GKS Reference Number: 24728
Approximate Place of Origin

43.0703, -80.1184