I am sending to Churchill for some doe skins to make a Deerskin jacket, which will be silk worked down the front, on the cuffs, shoulders and neck. When completed they are worth fifty dollars in the States but I will send it home as an heirloom to the Family Estate."

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Jacket

This jacket was made for Henry Moir at York Factory in 1917. He wrote about it to his mother in 1916. "I am sending to Churchill for some doe skins to make a Deerskin jacket, which will be silk worked down the front, on the cuffs, shoulders and neck. When completed they are worth fifty dollars in the States but I will send it home as an heirloom to the Family Estate."

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© Photograph by John McIntosh


© Photograph by John McIntosh


© Photograph by John McIntosh


© Photograph by John McIntosh


© Photograph by John McIntosh