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1932.8.9.1

Pair of white deer-skin moccasins, embroidered with coloured moosehair and edged with pink ribbon. [SM (Verve) 26/03/2014]

1932.8.9.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pair of white deer-skin moccasins, embroidered with coloured moosehair and edged with pink ribbon. [SM (Verve) 26/03/2014]
Cultural groups
Native American
Person
Field collector Miss J.M. Oliver
PRM source Miss J.M. Oliver
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1932
Date collected
By 1932
Acquisition information
Donated: 1932
Materials and processes
Material Deer Skin Animal, Material Quill, Material Moose Hair Animal, Material Ribbon Textile, Process Quillwork, Process Embroidered, Process Woven
Dimensions
Length: max 250 mm, Width: max 90 mm, Width: max 93 mm, Length: max 239 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1932.8.9.1 Accession number: 1932.8.9.2 Other numbers: Moc 21
Research and responses

Identified as E. Woodlands by Sherry & Calvin Racette, 1989.

Associated publications
Illustrated in black and white as Plate X, 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 77) as follows: 'Moccasins. 1. Huron transitional style, c. 1865 (cf. frontispiece and x. 2). Moose hair on slightly glazed skin. PRM: IX.42.8.' [MJD 19/08/2011]

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