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1943.2.1.1B

Pair of moose-hide moccasins with floral embroidery in dyed moose-hair (line and bristle techniques).

1943.2.1.1B

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pair of moose-hide moccasins with floral embroidery in dyed moose-hair (line and bristle techniques).
Long description
Pair of moose-hide moccasins with floral embroidery in dyed moose-hair (line and bristle' techniques) made in 1942 at Fort Smith by Mrs. Bert Edge, daughter of a HBC employee, and a woman of the Fort McPherson band of Loucheux Indians. NB vamps should not be folded over. Lois Edge and I re-wrapped both moccasins with the vamps straight up as they should be worn. Left moccasin: dye on quills has faded from exposure to light (this moccasin was included with others in a former PRM display). Right moccasin: small pieces of quilled edging around vamp are broken. L Peers, 06/02/2008
Geographical reference
Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada
North West Territories Fort Smith Fort McPherson
Cultural groups
Gwich'in
Person
Maker Mrs Joanne Edge
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Hudson's Bay Company
PRM source Clifford P. Wilson
Date / Period
Date made: 1942
Date collected
By 1943
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1943
Materials and processes
Material Moose Hair Animal, Material Moose Hide Skin Animal, Process Embroidered
Dimensions
Length: max 242 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1943.2.1.1B Accession number: 1943.2.1.2B Other numbers: Moc 29
Research and responses

Laura Peers has corresponded with Mrs Edge's granddaughter, Lois Edge, a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta. The Edge family wish it to be recorded that these moccasins, and the vamps 1954.11.5, were made by Mrs Joanne Edge (McLeod). LP, 17/01/2007. Lois Edge visited the Pitt Rivers Museum and worked with these moccasins in October and November 2007.

Associated publications
Illustrated in black and white as Plate XII, 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: 'Modern moccasin by Mrs. Edge, Fort Smith. Moose hide throughout. Moose-hair colours green, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple. PRM: 1943.2.B1' [MJD 19/08/2011]

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