Moccasins
The name ‘moccasins’ is derived from sixteenth century’s Virginia Algonquian Native American language. Moccasins are a particular type of shoes manufactured by soft leather, mostly deer skin, and these were first footwear of Native American settlers and traders. Moccasins are very soft shoes and less noisy in comparison to most of the present days shoes. They have good grip to make it slip resistant.
During earlier days tribes use to paint the shoes in different colors or styles, depending on their activities. Embedding of beads and shells were common things. Most tribes enjoyed wearing these shoes. A person wearing this moccasins shoe with specific color and shape could be easily identified, because every tribe had different or specific form and color liking. Some North American tribe liked pointy and long soles other liked thin soles, some even decorated their shoes with bright beads.
Shape and colors varied from tribe to tribe. For example, several tribes had special shoes for specific occasions. During hunting they wore simple and light moccasins shoe which had single piece of leather around the heel and throughout the top of the foot.
Moccasins shoes can be categorized into two category i.e.
soft sole and hard sole. The soft-soled shoes are made up of single piece of
leather which is wrapped and sewed around the foot. This type of shoes was
mostly popular among
