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- Date
- 1880 – 1910
- Material
- skin, deer; fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0013
- Description
- A very short, completely beaded, tabard with beaded strips sewn to each shoulder forming cap sleeves. Each side of the jacket is beaded with a white background containing four large red and blue square figures with V-shaped “staircase” in the middle, on either side of central vertical bar of the s…
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- Title
- Beaded Jacket
- Date
- 1880 – 1910
- Material
- skin, deer; fibre; glass
- Dimensions
- 51.5 x 25.3 cm
- Description
- A very short, completely beaded, tabard with beaded strips sewn to each shoulder forming cap sleeves. Each side of the jacket is beaded with a white background containing four large red and blue square figures with V-shaped “staircase” in the middle, on either side of central vertical bar of the same red adn blues. A series of small read and blue stepped triangles from a band a the top and bottom of the bodice. The beads are worked on canvas which is rolled at the neck to form edging, and edged with red fabric at the bottom. Short bead strips are sewn to each shoulder, and each has a design of two large white diamond shapes around a blue diamond and a yellow ochre diamond, with a horizontally divided background in the blue and yellow ochre colour. The diamond shapes are outlined with black and red glass beads. Short buckskin thongs tie the tabard together at the corners under the arms.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- Plains
- Cree
- ceremonial
- children
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0013
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- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1054 a,b
- Description
- Pair smoked gloves, floral beaded pattern on gauntlets, machine sewn, plain glove, gauntlet lined with canvas, 2 flower design, red and white tulip-like flower, red stems, green leaves, fringe sewn on side of gauntlet 11.0 long, many torn off short.
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1900 – 1920
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 38.5 cm
- Description
- Pair smoked gloves, floral beaded pattern on gauntlets, machine sewn, plain glove, gauntlet lined with canvas, 2 flower design, red and white tulip-like flower, red stems, green leaves, fringe sewn on side of gauntlet 11.0 long, many torn off short.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1054 a,b
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