moccasin
- Museum number
- Am1972,13.13
- Description
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Register 1972:
Dark brown buckskin moccassin with side ankle flaps. Heavily decorated with quillwork and fringes of hair in metal mountings.
- Production date
- 1800-1850 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 9 centimetres
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Length: 27 centimetres
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Width: 8 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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See JCH King 'Thunderbird and Lightning' BMP Ltd 1982. The pattern on the opposite flap to the one shown in this publication is slightly different. There are 4 triangulas shapes, rather than the 3 1/2 that are shown here, PAT 29.9.99 following e-mail correspondence with Judy Hall @ CMC.
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Register 1972:
Leather. Dark brown buckskin moccassin with side ankle flaps, heavily decorated with quillwork and fringes of hair in metal mountings.
Huron, Quebec, c. 1800-1850.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1982-1987 Jun-Jan, Museum of Mankind, Thunderbird and Lightning: Indian Life in North America, 1600-1900
1999 25 Jun-2011 2 Mar, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Northeastern Woodlands"
- Acquisition date
- 1972
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1972,13.13