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A Moccasin is a shoe
Shoe

A shoe is an item of footwear evolved at first to protect the human foot and later, additionally, as an item of decoration in itself. The foot contains more bones than any other single part of the human body, and has human evolution over hundreds of thousands of years in relation to vastly varied terrain and climate....
 made of deer
Deer

Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae . A number of broadly similar animals from related families within the order even-toed ungulate are often also called deer....
skin or other soft leather, consisting of a sole and sides made of one piece of leather, stitched together at the top, and sometimes with a vamp (additional panel of leather). The sole is soft and flexible and the upper part often is adorned with embroidery or beading, et cetera. Historically, it is the footwear of many Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
 tribes; moreover, hunters, traders, and European settlers wore them.






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A Moccasin is a shoe
Shoe

A shoe is an item of footwear evolved at first to protect the human foot and later, additionally, as an item of decoration in itself. The foot contains more bones than any other single part of the human body, and has human evolution over hundreds of thousands of years in relation to vastly varied terrain and climate....
 made of deer
Deer

Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae . A number of broadly similar animals from related families within the order even-toed ungulate are often also called deer....
skin or other soft leather, consisting of a sole and sides made of one piece of leather, stitched together at the top, and sometimes with a vamp (additional panel of leather). The sole is soft and flexible and the upper part often is adorned with embroidery or beading, et cetera. Historically, it is the footwear of many Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
 tribes; moreover, hunters, traders, and European settlers wore them. Etymologically, the moccasin derives from the Algonquian language
Algonquian languages

The Algonquian languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic languages language family ....
 Powhatan
Powhatan language

Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian is an extinct language of the Eastern Algonquian languages subgroup of the Algonquian languages language family, itself a member of the Algic languages language family....
 word makasin (cognate to Massachusett
Massachusett language

The Massachusett language was a Native American languages, a member of the Algonquian language family. It is also known as the Wampanoag, Natick, or Pokanoket language....
 mohkisson / mokussin, Ojibwa makizin, Mi'kmaq
Mi'kmaq language

The M?kmaq or Mi'kmaq language is an Eastern Algonquian languages language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States out of a total ethnic M?kmaq population of roughly 20,000....
 m'kusun), and from the Proto-Algonquian word *maxkeseni (shoe).

Design


Moccasins protect the foot whilst allowing the wearer to feel the ground. The Plains Indians
Plains Indians

The Plains Indians are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas who live on the plains and rolling hills of the Great Plains....
 wore hard-sole moccasins, given that their territorial geography featured rock and cacti. The eastern Indian tribes wore soft-sole moccasins, for walking in leaf-covered forest ground.

Contemporary use


Today, moccasins usually are part of a Native American regalia, e.g. a powwow suit of clothes. The most common style is that of the Plains Indian moccasin. In New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 and Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 sheep shearer
Shearer

A shearer is someone who shears, such as a sheep shearer.Additionally, Shearer is the surname of people:...
s' moccasins are constructed of a synthetic, cream-coloured felt, with a back seam and gathered at the top of the rounded toe. These moccasins are laced in the front, and the lacing is covered with a flap fastened with a buckle at the shoe's outer side. The fastener arrangement prevents the shearer's handpiece comb from catching in the laces. Shearers' moccasins protect the feet, grip wooden floors well, and absorb sweat.

The word moccasin might also denote a shoe of leather or of faux leather adorned with laces; recently, the moccasin shoe has resurged as a popular form slipper shoe for women and men.

See also


  • Loafer


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