(Q50364961)

English

capote

hooded winter coat worn by voyageurs, trappers, and native peoples in early Canada

  • capot
  • Hudson Bay coat
  • blanket coat
  • blanket-coat

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Capote made from a Hudson's Bay Company blanket, Siksika people, early 1900s (English)
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Evidence about Dress in Canada
Christina Bates
7 March 2018
In the Quebec literature, the combination of the capote belted with the ceinture fléchée and worn with the botte sauvage during the cold Quebec winters forms the “holy trinity” of traditional Quebec clothing. (English)
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