Moccasins

Moccasins

Moccasins

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Introduction

Moccasins, Cree or Métis , Manitoba, 1800s.

Nation of Maker: Cree Maskêkowiyiniwak (Swampy Cree) Métis
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British Museum Catalog Card.

Place of Origin: Manitoba, CA
Date Made or Date Range: 19 C
Materials

Made of hide, tanned and untanned, silk embroidery thread; pink, green, blue, yellow. Silk ribbon; red, blue, sinew or cotton thread?

Techniques or Format

Two moccasins from two different pairs. One moccasin is dark tanned with a red rosette, and a floral asymmetrical pattern on the vamp. The other moccasin is untanned, with a symmetrical design on the vamp, decorated with two blue rosettes, also on the vamp. The edge is also bound with blue silk ribbon.

Dimensions: 24 × 0 × 0 cm
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British Museum Catalog Card.

Current Location: British Museum, London, UK
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 2601
GKS Reference Number: 25198
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, moccasins. Currently in the British Museum, 2601. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2007; GRASAC item id 25198.

Record Creation Context

Record created as part of practicum, winter 2009.

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