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moccasins
moccasins
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Introduction
moccasins, collected by Chief John A. Gibson, Onkwehonwe (Iroquois, Hodenosaunee), Six Nations Reserve, Brantford, Ontario, 1800s- 1912.
Nation of Maker:
Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)
museum documentation
Place of Origin:
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
Date Made or Date Range:
1800s to 1912
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Materials
pair, made of tanned skin, with soles reinforced on the outside with raw-hide, attached with string in running stitch. The tanned skin portion is of one piece, seamed at the centre back and down the centre front to toe. No vamp, centre front seam decorated with four rows of white seed beads. Beading is with cotton thread. Each moccas in has skin thong, laced through the end of the front seam, forming two short skin ties. For man.
Dimensions:
24 × 9 × 0 cm
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses
museum documentation
Provenance
Current Location:
Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number:
III-I-362a,b
Date of Acquisition by the Institution:
1912
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GKS Reference Number:
25376
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