infant's Moccasins

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Sidney Museum and Archives

Name/Title

infant's Moccasins

Entry/Object ID

2005.019.003 a-b

Description

Infant's white kid [?] leather moccasin-booties. Sole and upper extending to for a high collar cut in one piece and pleated and hand-stitched with blanket stitch to the one-piece vamp and tongue. Centre back machine sewn seam, ending with short horizontal seam to define heel. Upper edge finished with narrow natural silk rick-rack gimp braid. Vamp decorated with arching row of featherstitching and one eight-armed star. Four double slits spaced around ankle area to take a ribbon tie. Collar lined with light blue silk satin lining [perished], handsewn in place in ankle area. Stamped in blue, in heel area of each moccasin, is "2".

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Coppinger, Doreen

Notes

Accession Date: 13-Apr-05 Mode of Acquisition: gift

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

moccasins, infant's moccasins

Class

Personal Objects - Clothing - Footwear

Created By

Jones, Isabel

Create Date

October 19, 2005

Updated By

[email protected]

Update Date

February 7, 2024