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Walking With Our Sisters exhibition in the Shingwauk Auditorium at Algoma University in 2014. The Walking With Our Sisters project was initiated by Métis artist Christi Belcourt to acknowledge the grief families of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) suffer with, to raise awareness of MMIW and to create opportunities for a discourse in which the issue can be acknowledged across ...
The moccasin game is a gambling game once played by most Native American tribes in North America. In the game, one player hides an object (traditionally a pebble, but more recently sometimes an old bullet or a ball) in one of several moccasins, but in such a way that the other player cannot easily see which moccasin it is in; that player then has to guess which moccasin contains the object.
Laced/Unlaced is a two-disc instrumental album by Emilie Autumn, released in 2007 by Trisol Music Group. [2] Disc one, "Laced", is a re-release of On a Day..., Autumn's fledgling record, with the addition of several previously unreleased live recordings from her teenage years. Disc two, "Unlaced", contains all electric violin recordings.
Contemporary moccasins Osage (Native American). Pair of Moccasins, early 20th century. Brooklyn Museum. A moccasin is a shoe, made of deerskin or other soft leather, [1] consisting of a sole (made with leather that has not been "worked") and sides made of one piece of leather, [1] stitched together at the top, and sometimes with a vamp (additional panel of leather).
Cypripedium acaule is commonly referred to in English as the pink lady's slipper or moccasin flower. [9] [10] [11] The specific epithet acaule means "lacking an obvious stem", [12] a reference to its short underground stem, for which reason the plant is also known as the stemless lady's-slipper. [13] In Anishinaabemowin, it is known as ...
Some varieties of the genus are given the common name "moccasin" or "moccasin snake" in the United States, which is the Algonquian word for "shoe". The origin of this nickname is unknown. The first known use of "moccasin" to refer to a deadly venomous snake was in a 1765 publication. The nickname is used to refer to both cottonmouths and ...
Shoemaker Nils Gregoriussen Tveranger combined the Native American moccasin with shoes worn by local fishermen, in the town of Aurland, Norway. The Aurland Moccasin was born. Raised seam on upper, similar to moccasin. Narrow cut out on saddle. Penny [24] 1936 G.H. Bass of Wilton, Maine, launched a loafer called the 'Weejun' (from 'Norwegian').
Common names include cottonmouth, northern cottonmouth, water moccasin, swamp moccasin, black moccasin, and simply viper. [14] Many of the common names refer to the threat display, in which this species often stands its ground and gapes at an intruder, exposing the white lining of its mouth.