moccasins

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176403

« There are two pairs of moccasins in the Speck collection. » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, N.o. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.16, fig 30a et b (p.58). « The second pair of mocc...

garter

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176402

« Short leggings that reached to or just above the knees, and were presumably worn by women, were held in place by garters. The collection contains one pair made of narrow, oval strips of heavy wool felt edged with light blue cotton tape. Down the center of one side is a simple design in blue cor...

garter

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176402.1-2

« Short leggings that reached to or just above the knees, and were presumably worn by women, were held in place by garters. The collection contains one pair made of narrow, oval strips of heavy wool felt edged with light blue cotton tape. Down the center of one side is a simple design in blue cor...

baby sack

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176401

« Among the Mistassini, infants under a year were generally kept in what Rogers (1967, pp. 62-63) calls a "moss bag" and Speck (1930, fig. 105, p. 417) illustrates as a "baby sack." The collection contains a single baby sack, a rectangular piece of fawn skin rounded at the lower end and lined wit...

boots

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176400

« A pair of badly deteriorated winter boots is made of caribou skin with the hair on, taken from the region of the hock. The lower or foot portion of the boot consists of three pieces of skin, one fitting around the back and sewn down both sides of the foot, a second fitting over the instep and a...

moccasin

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176399

moccasin

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176399.1-2

« There are two pairs of moccasins in the Speck collection. One pair is made of tanned caribou skin and shows signs of considerable wear. The bottom is a single piece and has a T-shaped heel seam. There is no toe seam, the bottom being gathered where it joins the tongue. This is the so-called "pu...

mittens

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176398

« The collection contains two pairs of mittens. » Vanstone, James W. "The Speck Collection of Montagnais Material Culture from the Lower St. Lawrence Drainage, Quebec." Fieldiana. Anthropology. New Series, No. 5 (October 29, 1982), p.16. « A much more utilitarian pair of mittens from Kiskisink, s...

mitten

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176397.1-2

« The collection contains two pairs of mittens. One pair is made of tanned moose skin consisting of five pieces: one each for the palm and back of the hand, one each for the inside and outside of the thumb, and one for the cuff which is made from a rectangular strip of beaver fur. There are ident...

belt

The Field Museum

1927.1734 . 176395

« A narrow strip of moose skin approximately 166 cm long is identified as a belt for holding up a man's leggings. This suggests that the longer leggings which could be fastened to a belt were worn by men, although Rogers (1967, p. 52) maintains that Mistassini men's and women's leggings were of e...