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Description

Pair of ankle height beaded hide moccasins. The hide is supple and medium brown. Inside ankle is lined with unbleached cotton. The top of the shoe and outside of the ankle piece are fully covered in beading, including a white background and motifs of stars in blue and orange, and triangles in green, red, blue, orange and yellow. The border has lines of black and white.

Narrative

Jean Nemi said she inherited a pair of moccasins and gauntlets (3027/1-2) in 1978, that had previously been owned by Father Joe A. McDonagh, who she was told worked among the Inuit, Prairie (Saskatchewan) and norther BC Indigenous peoples, as a Catholic missionary. The donor was also told that McDonagh was presented with the gloves and moccasins when he was made an honorary chief of one of the 'northern tribes', c. 1935-1940. An appraiser told the donor the style of beadwork might suggest a Carrier (Dakelhne) provenance, perhaps from the Prince George area?

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