Moccasins with cotton cloth tops; deerskin bottoms, white cotton cloth boot-like tops with commercial trim included, rickrack within stripes, blue and green yarn ties; length 24 cm each, height 34 cm each. Worn by women in warm weather; use of design is done in traditional manner i.e. borders, rickrack. Native name and meaning: "Misschin; miss, big; sschin, thing that you hold gets tired.
Donor:
Lucy W. Turner and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Great Whale River, Quebec, Canada
Culture or time period:
Cree
Collector:
Lucy W. Turner
Collection date:
May 1972
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Moccasins
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
February 20, 1974
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
This object record was created because location data had been entered into the PHOEBE database without a corresponding object record. (J. Meehan 6/2003)