The second oldest one is the pair that comes out of the Spalding-Allen Collection. So that's what I would call a four-piece moccasin. And then on the top, there's this little vamp that sits right on the top of your foot. And then a piece on the bottom that's the sole. Because you have two pieces that go from the toe all the way around to the back. Which is attributed to like Algonquin speaking people. "The oldest Nez Perce moccasin is the one that was found in the cave in the Snake River. I just think that that’s one of the things that’s kind of potential about the moccasins in particular." Or I’ll give them to you or whatever the case may have been. Well there might have been a woman there that said yeah, I feel really drawn to Christian faith, I do want to help out, I will make you a pair of moccasins to sell. Because I know that one of the things that’s part of the back story of the way that Spalding was collecting was that he had a spectrum, again, of real ardent followers to those that were more skeptical to those that were just outright against his presence and his efforts. And so what that leads me to think is that maybe those things were made and they were expressly given to or sold to Spalding. Meaning that whoever made them parted with them right away, and hardly ever wore them. Or else they must have had it reversed. Well anyway, after they put the par flesh soles onto the moccasins, I realized that there wasn’t a real strong imprint of a foot in those moccasins. But in all actuality, they did one and then they cut out the other and then they sewed them on. And it appeared at first that the feet were kind of crossed like that. And one of the things that I did was I recreated the design of the moccasin or the par flesh based upon how they were put on the moccasins. And they’re refabricated into soles of moccasins. And in particular, the bottoms are cut from par flesh. And another couple of interesting points is that they’re decorated in an interesting way because of the designs that are on them. "One thing that I noticed was that there was little to no wear on the bottom of them. Josiah Pinkham describing these moccasins: I can make another pair and I can contribute."
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Because then he’s not attached to it. What he’s attached to is I learned how to make moccasins.
What he’s expected to do is to make them, put a lot of work into them making them the best pair of moccasins that he can, and then give them away to somebody that is going to run holes in them. But he’s not supposed to hang onto those and parade them around like a trophy, you know, look, my very first pair of moccasins.
And you know, it’s his choice who he wants to give it to. Like with my son, his first pair of moccasins, I told him about our tradition of when we make our first pair of moccasins, or our first piece of beadwork, one of the things that I was taught was that you give that away to somebody. They ask about it. They see the benefit of it. And fortunately I’ve been blessed with beautiful boys that are interested in making these types of things. And so that’s why I’m constantly trying to keep my boys in material culture like that. And it’s an inspiration to me to look at those things and think God, I need to do more with my time. Your browser does not support the audio element.
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