An Atsugewi legging made of lashing tules together with a simple twining stitch
Maidu buckskin moccasin about eleven inches long (after Dixon)
Thumbless mittens were made of cased skins of weasels, rats or small cottontail rabbits and tied at the wrist with a thong. Atsugewi also utilized their fur-lined quivers as muffs when hunting.
California Indians spent much of the time barefoot, but wore buckskin moccasins at war, on long hunts or journeys. Different styles were made by each of the local tribes. None, however, were normally decorated. Mountain Maidu also made moccasins of fur with the hair side in, and Atsugewi stuffed pounded grass or grass into their footwear or wore grass or tule slippers inside their moccasins during the winter. Maidu put soft grass or sedges in their moccasins for added warmth. An extra sole of tougher leather such as elkskin was sometimes sewn onto the moccasin, but this was not customary.
Occasionally open sandals held on by three or four thongs were worn by Atsugewi and Yana.
Maidu snowshoe with raw-hide lashings
Snowshoe of about eighteen inches in diameter (after Dixon)