"Moccassins are the pride of the Indian wardrobe. They are the most, and very frequently the only, decorated piece of his apparel. In presentation they are the vehicle of regard; they carry the first tidings and are surest indication not only of the degree of the woman's handiwork, of a more tender sentiment from the maiden to the young hunter, if she is married, of the regard for the husband."
Casper Whitney, On Snowshoes to the Barren Grounds: Twenty-eight Hundred Miles After Musk-oxen and Wood Bison
New York: Harper 1896 pages 59-60
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