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Date
1920 – 1930
Material
skin; glass; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.07.0100 a,b
Description
A pair of high gauntleted buckskin gloves. Gloves cut from single piece of leather, with insets on fingers and thumb. Thick fell where gauntlet is attached to glove, and fringe along outside. On back of glove is a leaf like pattern in vermilion and charcoal edged by brass coloured beads. On back o…
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Title
Gauntlet Gloves
Date
1920 – 1930
Material
skin; glass; fibre
Dimensions
22.5 x 36.5 cm
Description
A pair of high gauntleted buckskin gloves. Gloves cut from single piece of leather, with insets on fingers and thumb. Thick fell where gauntlet is attached to glove, and fringe along outside. On back of glove is a leaf like pattern in vermilion and charcoal edged by brass coloured beads. On back of gauntlet is a geometrical pattern of leaves in red and blue bordered by white, emerging from a central "diamond" of charcoal and gold-silver and green leaves, bordered by white.
Subject
Indigenous
beadwork
regalia
Blackfoot
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.07.0100 a,b
Images
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