Showing 4 items for Detah.
Moccasins with moose hide soles and caribou hide ankle wraps. White stroud vamps, or 'uppers', and ankle cuffs are embroidered and beaded. Sewn with sinew.
| Accession No. | 983.010.001 a,b |
| Maker | Drygeese, Mary Louise |
| Culture | Dene |
| Region | North Slave |
| Location | Detah, Great Slave Lake |
| Date | 1983 |
A hand-cranked sewing machine purchased by Rose Drygeese and Sophie Lacorne at Weaver & Devore Trading Ltd. in Yellowknife in the 1940s. They shared the machine while living in Detah and at bush camps, and loaned it out frequently to friends.
| Accession No. | 2009.026.001 a-d |
| Maker | Singer Manufacturing Company, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec |
| Culture | Dene |
| Region | North Slave |
| Location | Detah, Great Slave Lake |
| Date | 1936 |
A powder horn for carrying gunpowder that belonged to Johnny Crapeau. Powder horns were made by southern suppliers and came north with the fur trade. This one is made from a cow horn.
| Accession No. | 2000.011.007 a,b |
| Maker | Unknown |
| Culture | Dene |
| Region | North Slave |
| Location | Detah, Great Slave Lake |
| Date | Early 1900s |
An 'Edison Amberola 30' phonograph that played wax cylinders. The internal horn on this machine has been removed and the box is missing its wooden front grille. The 'Blue Amberol' cylinder on the playing cylinder is The Rocky Road to Dublin. This phonograph was used in Detah homes into the 1940s.
| Accession No. | X963.025.001 a,b |
| Maker | Thomas A. Edison Inc., Orange, New Jersey, USA |
| Culture | Dene |
| Region | North Slave |
| Location | Detah, Great Slave Lake |
| Date | 1915-1920s |
