Workshop: Making Moccasins by Alex Nischa Meechgalanne Warrington
Tannery Pond Center presents: Making Moccasins with Alex Warrington
Saturday, August 24 | 10 AM - 3 PM
Cost Free
Details Ages 14 and older, minimum participants: 3, Maximum participants: 10
RSVP please call 518-251-2505 or email director@tannerypondcenter.org to reserve your spot.
Schedule
Class 10 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch 12:30 - 1 PM - Bring a brown bag lunch!
Class 1-3 PM
Summary of the Workshop Alex is known in the Woodland Indian culture and historical programs for making all of his own traditional attire, including moccasins, and will instruct the class in the art of traditional eastern woodland Indian moccasin making. With his instruction, you will make your own pair of center seam-pucker toe leather moccasins; these were the most common among the eastern woodland tribes. You will be using deer hide leather and awls to make primitive, traditional eastern woodland moccasins.
Alex Warrington can trace his bloodline back through the Menominee tribe as well as having both French and German ancestry. He is well known as a Traditional drummer, Woodland Indian Historical Researcher, Traditional Woodland Indian Craftsman and Historical Trecker. If you have not heard of the term Historical Trecker before it means that our guides hike and teach in traditional clothes amongst the locations in the areas mentioned in history during the French Indian War.
