@brighteyes847: Fur Trade History TIDBIT -COOKING WITH BRIGHT EYES Robert Kennicott in 1862. "In this "Carte de visite" Kennicott is wearing a double breasted capote (a knee length wool jacket with a hood) tied at the waist with an Assomption sash (metis sash) and a marten fur skin fire-bag. His pants are trimmed with ribbon on the outside seams and on the cuffs. He is wearing a toque on his head. The pants are tied just below the knee with garters ending in tassles. On his feet are beaded or embroidered moccasins. This type of clothing was worn by the French Canadians and French Canadian Metis of the North West." Fire-bag: Kennicott describes his fire-bag on January 18, 1862: "It (the fire-bag used for carrying flints, steel, touchwood, pipe, knife, etc., etc., by all voyageurs, in place of pockets) is made of a fine, large marten skin, and is the bonniest one in the district." Source: page 203 of the "Transactions of the Chicago Academy of Sciences" (volume 1) Note: The use of a prime fur as clothing or accessory is unusual. Trade furs were too valuable to wear.

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