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Date
1940
Material
skin, deer; shell, cowrie
Catalogue Number
103.05.0006
Description
A girl's deerskin dress fringed at the bottom of sleeves and at the hem. The dress is decorated with widely spaced horizontal rows of cowrie shells across the yoke and extending half way down the sleeves. There is a single row of shells at the hem.
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Title
Beaded Dress
Date
1940
Material
skin, deer; shell, cowrie
Dimensions
87.0 (shoulders) x 100.0 cm
Description
A girl's deerskin dress fringed at the bottom of sleeves and at the hem. The dress is decorated with widely spaced horizontal rows of cowrie shells across the yoke and extending half way down the sleeves. There is a single row of shells at the hem.
Subject
Indigenous
Plains
regalia
Banff
Indian Days
decorative
Blackfoot
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.05.0006
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Date
1945 – 1955
Material
skin; glass; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.05.0088
Description
A woman's dress of light buckskin with a very heavily beaded yoke of beaded canvas sewn at the waist to the buckskin skirt. The arms are similarly all heavily beaded canvas. Fringed skirt, also fringed at side seams and along waistline, tunic portion is open. White ground of beads is decorated with…
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Title
Beaded Dress
Date
1945 – 1955
Material
skin; glass; fibre
Dimensions
53.0 x 128.0 cm
Description
A woman's dress of light buckskin with a very heavily beaded yoke of beaded canvas sewn at the waist to the buckskin skirt. The arms are similarly all heavily beaded canvas. Fringed skirt, also fringed at side seams and along waistline, tunic portion is open. White ground of beads is decorated with central squares of gold, blue and red and stepped square diagonals ray out from it, stepped square diamonds on either side. Yoke and shoulders decorated with vermilion and green squares. Skirt has thong fringes hanging from leather rosettes.
Subject
Indigenous
beadwork
regalia
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.05.0088
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Date
1940 – 1950
Material
glass; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.01.0010
Description
A single strand beaded necklace with black beads in the centre and white beads along the edges. The ends are tied in a knot with two loops of black and white beads at each end.
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Title
Beaded Necklace
Date
1940 – 1950
Material
glass; fibre
Dimensions
46.0 cm
Description
A single strand beaded necklace with black beads in the centre and white beads along the edges. The ends are tied in a knot with two loops of black and white beads at each end.
Subject
Indigenous
Stoney
tourism
souvenir; regalia
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.01.0010
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Date
1940 – 1965
Material
skin; glass; shell; claw
Catalogue Number
103.01.0068
Description
A simple necklace with buckskin thong ends, and alternated green and white, then blue and white, then green and yellow beads, four cowrie shells and three sharp claws interspersed in yoke. Note found with necklace: “Dan Wildman’s daughter thinks Mrs. Jonie” in Catharine Whyte’s handwriting.
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Title
Beaded Necklace
Date
1940 – 1965
Material
skin; glass; shell; claw
Dimensions
73.0 cm
Description
A simple necklace with buckskin thong ends, and alternated green and white, then blue and white, then green and yellow beads, four cowrie shells and three sharp claws interspersed in yoke. Note found with necklace: “Dan Wildman’s daughter thinks Mrs. Jonie” in Catharine Whyte’s handwriting.
Subject
Indigenous
beadwork
regalia
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.01.0068
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Date
1940 – 1960
Material
skin; metal; shell
Catalogue Number
103.01.0078
Description
A simple necklace, strung on a buckskin thong are brass beads and cowrie shells, the shells having been bored through. Sequence of three beads then shell, three beads, shell and so on.
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Title
Beaded Necklace
Date
1940 – 1960
Material
skin; metal; shell
Dimensions
83.0 cm
Description
A simple necklace, strung on a buckskin thong are brass beads and cowrie shells, the shells having been bored through. Sequence of three beads then shell, three beads, shell and so on.
Subject
Indigenous
beadwork
accessories
regalia
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.01.0078
Images
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This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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