Moccasins

During the fur trade era of the early 1800s, the British Hudson Bay Company, based in Canada, assigned Eastern Woodland and Great Lakes Indian men to the Northern Rocky Mountains to trap beaver for hats popular in Europe and the eastern U.S. Plains Blackfeet men started wearing European style tailored jackets featuring beaded floral patterns on the cuffs and epaulets. Their clothing made quite an impression and by the mid-1800s, Blackfeet women were adorning clothing with floral beadwork like these moccasins.