- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0078 a,b
- Description
- A pair of handmade gloves with heavily beaded gauntlets lined with canvas, fringe along outside, and reinforced machine stitching around thumb gore. Buckskin gauntlet completely beaded on the front with blue background containing large red stepped diamond at centre outlined in white with two smalle…
- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- A pair of handmade gloves with heavily beaded gauntlets lined with canvas, fringe along outside, and reinforced machine stitching around thumb gore. Buckskin gauntlet completely beaded on the front with blue background containing large red stepped diamond at centre outlined in white with two smaller red and white stepped pyramids joined together at each side to form a band running vertically. Wide band of red and white interlocked acute triangles across top edge and base of gauntlet. Rolled buckskin edge at top of cuff, three vertical white beaded stripes on top of each hand.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Mrs. George McLean
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0078 a,b
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- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- hair; fibre; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0081 a,b
- Description
- A roach headdress made from porcupine guard hairs sewn around the edge of a support made from braided strips of fabric stitched together in an elongated shape much in the same manner as a braided rug. The long porcupine hairs are of natural colour and fan open when the braided mat is attached to th…
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- Title
- Roach Headdress
- Date
- 1880 – 1900
- Material
- hair; fibre; wood
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 42.0 cm
- Description
- A roach headdress made from porcupine guard hairs sewn around the edge of a support made from braided strips of fabric stitched together in an elongated shape much in the same manner as a braided rug. The long porcupine hairs are of natural colour and fan open when the braided mat is attached to the curvature of the head. A short length of cord has been stitched to the underside of the braided mat, with short lengths of heavy thread sewn at intervals along the edges. Stored with large carved b) club of wood inside to hold the form of the hairs smooth, and wrapped with a length of cord.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0081 a,b
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