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Man's Visor Cap

Man's Visor Cap

Date: 1927
Medium: flannel, felt, cloth, thread, mink, rabbit tail
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/2 x 7 x 10 1/4 in. (16.5 x 17.8 x 26 cm)
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Object number: 1927.2418.1

The Innu, who speak a dialect of Cree, live in several communities in northern Quebec and Labrador. The term Innu (“people”) is the name they call themselves, while they are known to non-Innu as Montagnais (French for “mountain people”) and Naskapi.

Panels for this cap were sewn on a hand-cranked sewing machine. The Montagnais believed that red symbolized light from the fire, and black, the dark of night. Most of their hats were in this color combination.

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