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English: Metal Scissor (FOUS 8664)
Photographer
English: NPS photo
Title
English: Metal Scissor (FOUS 8664)
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
Description
English:

Half of metal scissor.

Metal scissors were a popular trade item at Fort Union. Just like today, tailors used them to cut fabric and thread. But it wasn’t only a tailor who used them at Fort Union. American Indian and Métis women would have acquired metal scissors because they increasingly relied on fur trade–imported fabrics to make their clothes. In fact, it is estimated that fabrics may have accounted for as much as 60 percent of goods traded for at Fort Union and other posts.

  • Keywords: fort; union; trading; post; national; historic; site; artifacts; trade; plains; indians; american; artifact
Depicted place
English: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Date Taken on 20 January 2017
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English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
NPS Unit Code
InfoField
FOUS
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English: Artifacts of Fort Union

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