A FINE PAIR OF HURON SKIN MOCCASINS, of black-dyed skin sewn in red, blues and white-dyed moosehair with floral motifs within red quilled borders, crimson silk edges and ribbons, damages, circa 1830

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A FINE PAIR OF HURON SKIN MOCCASINS, of black-dyed skin sewn in red, blues and white-dyed moosehair with floral motifs within red quilled borders, crimson silk edges and ribbons, damages, circa 1830
23cm. long (2)

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An almost identical pair of moccasins which were collected by Baron Albert-Alexandre de Pourtalès on a visit to Niagara Falls in 1832 are now in the Historical Museum, Berne (Thompson, 1977, p. 142, fig. 59)

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