Indian garments furnish many instances in which a style or decoration, originally designed to serve a special purpose, has become permanent and continues to be used when it serves none but a decorative end. Indians of Hudson Bay and Western Canada use a two-piece moccasin, made from pattern at left on page 312, sewing in the U-shaped insert with a curved seam. Since trade days the Indians have followed the custom of covering this insert with velvet or broadcloth as shown in the middle moccasin. The Blackfoot Indians, south of these tribes, have a moccasin with a separate sole and smooth one-piece top (after pattern at right on page 312), thus with no U-shaped insert, yet they go to the trouble of putting on a decorated U-shaped patch in imitation of the style of their neighbors (moccasin at left). In the design on this moccasin is the Blackfoot's symbol for the aurora, the "white man's dance fire"
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