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Boots:
An Inuit Women's Art - Perfect
Pair:
Wedding Traditions from Around the World - Tradition
and Innovation:
Northern Athapaskan Footwear - Chronicles of Riches
- Paths Across The Plains
- Appeasing the Spirits
- Footsteps on the Sacred Earth
- Paduka
- Japanese Footgear
- Whats their line?
- Heights of Fashion
- Select a story to discover more about the history and function of shoes!
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Fort Laramie
Alfred Jacob Miller, c.1840s
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Alfred Jacob Miller, c.1840s
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Métis Family
Paper, pigment
Peter Rindisbacher, c. 1826
BSM P80.982
Paper, pigment
Peter Rindisbacher, c. 1826
BSM P80.982
The Flower Beadwork People
Trade
Forts and trading posts became important centres of trade in the second half of the 19th century. Scattered across the Great Plains, they facilitated exchange and many Métis found markets for their skillfully crafted and elaborately decorated clothing among the people who gathered around these outposts.
