I’m looking for a piece of smoked moose hide 69″ x 57″ for making one of these: http://www.narrativethreads.ca/explorer-explore/harnais_et_couverture_de_chien-dog_harness_and_blanket.html

Apr 9, 2018

I’m looking for a piece of smoked moose hide 69″ x 57″ for making one of these: http://www.narrativethreads.ca/explorer-explore/harnais_et_couverture_de_chien-dog_harness_and_blanket.html If anyone knows where I can get this please leave me a message...

!!! well done Voyageurs

Apr 9, 2018

!!! well done Voyageurs

‘Hiding in Plain Sight’

Apr 9, 2018

‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/metis/Pages/metis-nation-collection-lac.aspx?=undefined&wbdisable=true

The Surveyor: Portrait of Captain John Henry Lefroy ca. 1845 by Paul Kane. Lefroy is wearing a Métis/voyageur outfit consisting of a capote, a sash, a fire bag, mittens on a string, leggings, garters and moccasins. His companion is also wearing a capote, a sash and a fire bag.

Apr 9, 2018

The Surveyor: Portrait of Captain John Henry Lefroy ca. 1845 by Paul Kane. Lefroy is wearing a Métis/voyageur outfit consisting of a capote, a sash, a fire bag, mittens on a string, leggings, garters and moccasins. His companion is also wearing a capote, a sash and a...

again I caution that the provenance may or may not be correct. Indigenous society of the 19th c was very polyethnic. The glass beadwork, and flowers may be traced to the Métis women via the French nuns (floral designs) and the fur trade. This looks like a Thunderbird. It’s common, even to this day, for American Indigenous peoples from the northern states to not realize their Michif heritage.

Apr 4, 2018

again I caution that the provenance may or may not be correct. Indigenous society of the 19th c was very polyethnic. The glass beadwork, and flowers may be traced to the Métis women via the French nuns (floral designs) and the fur trade. This looks like a Thunderbird....