- Date
- 1950 – 1975
- Material
- skin; glass; shells; metal; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0077
- Description
- A tan dress of summer bison hide, heavily beaded and decorated yoke on purple cotton fabric extends beyond shoulders to form short cape sleeve and is heavily fringed along bottom and edges front and back. Wide alternating rows of light blue cylindrical beads and amber cylindrical beads have rows of…
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- Title
- Beaded Dress
- Date
- 1950 – 1975
- Material
- skin; glass; shells; metal; fibre
- Dimensions
- 82.0 x 105.0 cm
- Description
- A tan dress of summer bison hide, heavily beaded and decorated yoke on purple cotton fabric extends beyond shoulders to form short cape sleeve and is heavily fringed along bottom and edges front and back. Wide alternating rows of light blue cylindrical beads and amber cylindrical beads have rows of cowrie shells between, with a row of large round blue beads at the bottom. Fringe at bottom of skirt attached separately and trimmed at the top edge with a single row of blue and yellow beads. Spaced around skirt front are two beaded medallions with thick beaded rope tassels, one black and grey, one pink and white, with a narrow, 4 cm, piece of fringe tassel with cowrie shells, bells, and orangish pink large bead at the end of each, located between the beaded medallions as well as on each side of the skirt and in the middle of the back. Dress is seamed just above waist, yoke lined with canvas.
- Subject
- Indigenous,Stoney
- beadwork
- regalia
- bison
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0077
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