Moccasins

Museum number:

2-20977a,b

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.982

Description:

Old style.

Donor:

Catherine McClellan

Collection place:

Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Canada; Yukon

Culture or time period:

Teslin

Maker or artist:

Mrs. Frank Johnston [Teslin]

Collector:

Catherine McClellan and Dorothy Lee Rainier

Collection date:

1949

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Moccasins

Function:

2.1 Daily Garb

Production date:

July 1949

Accession date:

1949

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Comment:

Remarks: Husband of Mrs. Johnston still prefers this kind of moccasin although most Indians wear a modern style with larger upper crimped to the lower only at one place. See D. Jenness, "Indians of Canada", 6th ed., p. 425 for reference to Teslin.

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