Child’s boot

Name (French):
Name (Innu):	auassassin
Date Collected:	unknown
Institutions:	The Rooms, Provincial Museum Division
Catalog Number:	III-B-33b
Place Made:	unknown
Maker:	displayed with a card stating "caribou skin objects, made and painted by Nascopie Indians"
Collector:	unknown

Description:

Caribou skin boots made from three shaped pieces; moccasins (approximately 2 high) sewn with sinew to instep pieces and to legging which is sewn up the side. Piece of skin (approximately 6″ long and 1.5″ wide) joined to top of legging on one side. Red, blue and yellow paint applied with stencil in parallel lines around upper portion of boot, down side seam, around moccasin and on instep. Geometric figures drawn between these parallel borders.

References:

MacKenzie Shoebox dictionary 2003.