Anne Ratt

d. 1970's Saskatchewan, Canada

Anne Ratt was from the Lac La Ronge Indian Band and a citizen of Sucker River First Nation in northern Saskatchewan.

For her rabbit fur rugs, Ratt employed traditional northern Cree techniques that were used to make lightweight, warm, and breathable garments and blankets. Lengths of rabbit fur were cut and dried, then rubbed and worked to make them pliable, and finally looped in a manner similar to crochet using the index finger as a hook. According to Sherry Farrell Racette, an Algonquin/Métis academic, the small scale of these rabbit fur mats and their sale through La Ronge’s Northern Handicraft Co-operative Centre (an alternative to the trading post system), indicates they were possibly a “test product” for tourists or a southern market.