Canada Vignettes: Moccasins

4.5
  • Run time: 1 min
  • Premiere: 1979. January 1.

    Close-ups of fine detail of the ancient skill of quillwork embroidery--brightly coloured geometric designs on high-ankled, Seneca-type moccasins. These moccasins are over one hundred years old, from the fabled Speyer Collection that was repatriated from Germany by the National Museum of Man in 1975.

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