Lot 130
130
A FINE PAIR OF QUILLED SKIN MOCCASINS, the vamps and cuffs with narrow panels of fine quillwork in blue, red and cream within red and blue borders, the cuffs with tin cone fringe issuing white and red- dyed horse hair, circa 1820, probably northern Ojibwa or Cree

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A FINE PAIR OF QUILLED SKIN MOCCASINS, the vamps and cuffs with narrow panels of fine quillwork in blue, red and cream within red and blue borders, the cuffs with tin cone fringe issuing white and red- dyed horse hair, circa 1820, probably northern Ojibwa or Cree
27cm. long (2)
Provenance
James T. Hooper, no. 1636
Literature
Phelps, 1976, p. 345, Pl. 205

Lot Essay

Cf. a similarly-decorated pair of moccasins, with bands of broad porcupine quillwork enclosing fine panels, collected by Sir John Caldwell, who was in Canada 1774 to 1780 (Ewing, 1982, p. 255, no. 268).

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