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View full screenMoccasin, one of a pair, of tanned smoked caribou skin of two-piece form with added ankle flaps and drawstring thong ties, part of a woman's summer outfit: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860
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Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
c. 1860
Tłı̨chǫ
Athapaskan
Caribou skin, Thong, Wool, Sinew
Mocassin, made of tanned smoked caribou skin of two-piece form with added ankle flaps and drawstring thong ties. Strips of red wool cloth let into vamp seams, sewn with sinew.
Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
Hudson's Bay Company
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National Museum of Scotland
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Carleton University Art Gallery
The Athabaskans: Strangers of the North. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1974. Exhibition catalogue from 'An international travelling exhibition from the collection of the National Museum of Man, Canada, and the Royal Scottish Museum'. cat no. 172
Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979
Dè T’a Hoti Ts’eeda: ‘We Live Securely by the Land’; An Exhibition of Dene material selected from the collections from National Museums Scotland. Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada 2006
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