Beaded Bandolier Bag
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- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre,cotton; fibre; clay
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0009
- Description
- An apron which hangs around neck and has two slit pocket openings just above a black velvet band at the waist. There is a wool tassel fringe along the bottom edge of the apron. The back is lined with black cotton. The bandolier is decorated with crewel-like beadwork depicting vines, flowers and …
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- Title
- Beaded Bandolier Bag
- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre,cotton; fibre; clay
- Dimensions
- 42.0 (bottom) x 112.0 cm
- Description
- An apron which hangs around neck and has two slit pocket openings just above a black velvet band at the waist. There is a wool tassel fringe along the bottom edge of the apron. The back is lined with black cotton. The bandolier is decorated with crewel-like beadwork depicting vines, flowers and leaves over the entire front surface.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0009
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Storage Basket
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.19.0099
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- bark; skin; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0099
- Description
- A sturdy birchbark lidded pail like storage vessel made of a single piece of birchbark which has been folded to form a flat bottom, sloped in, but rectilinear, walls. Seamed and tied with pink dyed root fibre. A firm rim, probably of firm root or willow branch, bound in coiled pink and pale green r…
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- Title
- Storage Basket
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- bark; skin; wood
- Dimensions
- 22.6 x 22.5 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- A sturdy birchbark lidded pail like storage vessel made of a single piece of birchbark which has been folded to form a flat bottom, sloped in, but rectilinear, walls. Seamed and tied with pink dyed root fibre. A firm rim, probably of firm root or willow branch, bound in coiled pink and pale green root stalk, and two buckskin thongs, one at either end for carrying. The walls are drawn in and the folded up base seamed to them at either end, and the sides drawn in are stitched up to the vessel rim. A flat birchbark lid, attached to the vessel by a buckskin thong has two ties on its other side for sealing the vessel, and the lid is decorated with a conventional four petalled flower in pink strip fibre and four green leaves radiating from the centre.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Ojibway
- households
- basketry
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0099
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