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The moccasin was the universal footwear footware of Native Americans. Made of soft dearskin, the upper part was usually decorated with beads and porcupine quills. The soles were made of buffalo hide. Each tribe had its own style of making moccasins. This enabled Native American scouts to identify a tribe by footmarks on the ground.
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(1) Meriwether Lewis, journal (26th September, 1804)
The winter moccasins are of dressed buffalo-skin, the hair being worn inwards, and scaled with thick elk-skin parchment: those for summer are of deer or elk-skin, dressed without the hair, and with soles of elk-skin. On great occasions, or wherever they are in full dress, the young men drag after them the entire skin of a polecat fixed to the heel of the moccasins.
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