Sock
- Museum number:
- 2-56546b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2102056546b
- Alternate number:
- 11 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2862
- Description:
- Sock, long; white “duffle” i.e. fulled wool; varicolored wool and silk embroidery; buckskin soles; length each 43 cm. Worn inside long boots and moccasins in winter in house and on hard snow by men and women. Native name and meaning: nippe yo wah shagen: nippe: water; agen: motion.
- 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:
- July 1972
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- February 20, 1974
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)