smoked deer hide, blackened on both sides; dyed moose hair in red-orange, medium blue and white; coarsely woven red silk tape.

The moccasins are of puckered toe construction with separate cuffs and pieces along the ankle on the moccasin body. The vamp is extended down the sides and the cuffs are attached. The piecing is done as if the maker were short on hide. Was the pieced construction (see Turner) to raise up the cuff more, like a gusset, to give shape? The stitching technique is couched with different thread. It is similar to the two-needle technique but two needles are not needed because the moose hair is stiff. The card catalogue entry states that this is Hatt's structural series X, modified: the vamp is divided and prolonged halfway round the ankle, whence narrow gores proceed to the heel seam.
The moccasins are embroidered in stylized floral designs, with edges bound with red silk tape.

The embroidery in in stylized floral designs with scalloped line bordering the cuff and the vamp.

Pending AdS's thesis, accession record: ?1800-1850. CW and RP suggest 1815-1830, based on stylistic elements.

Purchased by the Pitt Rivers Museum from the Ipswich Museum through Patricia M. Butler in 1966.

1955/ 1976 / 1996. Turner, Geoffrey E.S. Hair Embroidery in Siberia and North America. Occasional Papers on Technology, 7. Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford.

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, December 8-22 2007, funded by a grant from the International Opportunities fund of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

researchers present: Heidi Bohaker (HB), Stacey Loyer (SL), Janis Monture (JM), Laura Peers (LP), Ruth Phillips (RP), Anne De Stecher (AS), Cory Willmott (CW).