Pair of moccasins decorated with dyed horse-hair, purchased from girl wearing them.

Collection type: Object
Description: Pair of moccasins decorated with dyed horse-hair, purchased from girl wearing them.
Geographical reference: Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada; Northern Territories Alberta Boundary Fort Smith
Cultural groups: Dene Suline
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Hudson's Bay Company
Date / Period: Date made: 1941
Date collected: 1942
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Moose Hide Skin Animal, Material Horse Hair Animal, Material Pigment, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Caribou Skin Deer Animal, Material Yarn, Process Dyed, Process Recycled, Process Woven, Process Smoked
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.7.2.1B Accession number: 1942.7.2.2B Other numbers: moc 6
Associated publications: Illustrated in black and white as Plate XVI, A in Hair Embroidery in Siberia and North America by Geoffrey Turner (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 7). The illustration is captioned (page 78) as follows: 'Vamp of Chipewyan moccasin, caribou skin covered with black velvet (foot-piece of moose hide). Horse-hair piping: note folding of filler at right, free ends at left. PRM: 1942.7.B.2.' [MJD 21/09/2011]

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