Context (Amendments / updates)
See letter. Also inscribed on card: R 1893.59(2); From supplementary note in drawer of cards: moccasins collected by Caldwell are not of Blackfoot type. They are typical of the northern Athabascans (Chipewyan, etc). But this cut is also used by Cree (G.E.S. Turner);

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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Replacement catalogue card notes for 1893.44.6 A-G: Seven plain pairs of moccasins.

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Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Donated in 1893 by Col. Robert Townley Caldwell, LL.D , Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and formerly Colonel of the 3rd Gordon Highlanders, D.D. Companies, Aberdeen and Cambridge
Possibly collected by his father, Lieutenant-colonel William Bletterman Caldwell, colonial administrator in Red River, 1848-1853
Event Date 1893
Author: rachel hand

Context (Physical description)
'Accession Register entry for E 1893.44 notes "A dress, consisting of skin robe, leggings and mocassins... Nine pairs of mocassins, 7 plain, 3 embroidered, and 2 odd (1 plain, 1 embroidered). A cap embroidered with European beads"
Event Date 1893
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
'These moccasins now differentiated on the labels. Sinew sewn with ankle flaps. D: smoked moose skin, central toe seam with ankle cuff and ties. Decorated with a line of white quills around vamp, overwrapped in red, with remains of blue wool.
Event Date 6/7/2007
Author: rachel hand

Conservation ()
565 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Previously noted as possibly from Cree speakers in the cultural group field, and now removed.
Event Date 26/1/2024
Author: rachel hand