Embroidered Moccasins
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William C. Sturtevant
notes: label: Notes
content: Notes from Sturtevant's personal catalog: "Pair of moccasins. Brown leather, pattern = series VI of Hatt (with small additional insert in heel seam not described by Hatt). Double vamp, the upper layer white (buckskin, caribou skin?) with fine floral design in silk embroidery, edged with 6 lines of dyed horsehair piping on hair filler, attached by separate sinew thread; front edges of uppers scalloped; strip of red cloth with crenellated edge sewn over seam between uppers and lowers. Purchased 26 June 1956 at Bennett's Antiques, Sagamore, Mass. ($10.00). Compared with Skinner, AMNH-AP9 (1911) p.20, fig 6c (Cree), Davidson INM 10:115ff (1928) (Cree), Osgood, YUPA 14, pl. 6D (Kutchin), Mason, YUPA 34 (Slave), Goddard AMNH-AP 10 (1911) (Beaver), Jenness, BCDM 84 (1937) (Sekani), Lyford, Ind. Handicr. 5 (Ojibwa), Turner, PRM-OPT7 (1955 (Hair Embr.) [Orig ID:] Northern Athapaskan (Kutchin? Slave?; or Cree??. [Later annotation with original ID crossed through and added;] Woodland Cree (Hudson B. > N of L. Winnipeg) horsehair piping (T. Brasser 10 Oct '65)"
label: Notes
content: Hatt refers to Gotmund Hatt, who published on moccasin typologies.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cree
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2049174
label: USNM Number
content: E437846-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Moccasin