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Grand Portage National MonumentPots of stew, potatoes, wild rice and vegetables simmer over hot coals in the kitchen's fireplace.
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Grand Portage National Monument
Clothing
Assomption Sash GRPO #525

NPS photo by Dave Cooper

Assomption Sash GRPO #525

  • Overview
    • Few items of fur trade era clothing have survived the ravages of time. However, the Grand Portage collection does include a number of archeological objects such as buttons and shoe buckles that offer glimpses of the actual clothing worn by fur traders and voyageurs. This gallery also shows part of a colorful Assomption sash of the type popularized by voyageurs, although the sash is probably of later 19th century manufacture.
 
Portrait of Alexander Mackenzie - Grand Portage National Monument  

Did You Know?
Nor’Wester Alexander Mackenzie jumped off from Grand Portage to reach the Pacific Ocean in 1793, 13 years before Lewis and Clark crossed the continent.

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