Round Moosehide Snowshoe Earrings

Handmade round earrings by Isabelle Neeposh of Ouje-Bougoumou. Each earring is made with traditionally smoked moosehide on both sides, with a small snowshoe beaded at the centre in Delica beads mixed with Mother-of-Pearl iridescent beads. Four accent beads frame each snowshoe, and the edge is finished all the way around with crystal beads. A nod to the snowshoes that carry Eeyou families across the land every winter.

Choose your accent colour: orange, green, red or blue. Made by hand, so each pair is one of a kind.

• Size: 1.5" diameter
• Weight: 15 g
• Materials: traditionally smoked moosehide (both sides), Delica beads, Mother-of-Pearl iridescent beads, crystal beads
• Hooks: fish hook ear wires

About moosehide

For the Cree of Eeyou Istchee, the moose is a harvested animal that feeds families, and its hide has been prepared by hand for generations. Scraping, stretching, softening and smoking a hide takes time, patience and skill, and that knowledge is passed down within families and communities. Using the hide, down to the small pieces saved for jewelry and beadwork, reflects the Cree value of respecting the animal by making use of every part of the harvest. Wearing moosehide carries that connection to the land and to the people who keep these skills alive.