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- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0082
- Description
- A man's buckskin shirt cut from a single piece of buckskin and laced at the sides, edged head cutout and fitted sleeves. The laces draw through from the front to the back and then hang down, becoming part of the fringe, bottom edges are pinked. Other parts, beadwork strips on arms, have fringes han…
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- Title
- Beaded Shirt
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; metal
- Dimensions
- 55.0 x 72.0 cm
- Description
- A man's buckskin shirt cut from a single piece of buckskin and laced at the sides, edged head cutout and fitted sleeves. The laces draw through from the front to the back and then hang down, becoming part of the fringe, bottom edges are pinked. Other parts, beadwork strips on arms, have fringes hanging from them. Two white beadwork bands are sewn to the shirt coming up the chest, across the shoulders and going down the back, and two like bands running the length of the arms. The beadwork is principally white with brass bead diamonds and triangles surrounded by burgundy and blue outlines.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0082
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- Date
- 1920 – 1935
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0084
- Description
- A white buckskin tunic cut from a single hide, the edges of the hide fringed out in twisted fringe, open at sides (no thongs), and the yoke edged for strength, arms inset at shoulders. White ground beadstrips running down chest over shoulders and down back, beaded on canvas, and beadstrips running …
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- Title
- Beaded Shirt
- Date
- 1920 – 1935
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 57.0 x 71.0 cm
- Description
- A white buckskin tunic cut from a single hide, the edges of the hide fringed out in twisted fringe, open at sides (no thongs), and the yoke edged for strength, arms inset at shoulders. White ground beadstrips running down chest over shoulders and down back, beaded on canvas, and beadstrips running down arms. Ermine trims along arms and down back. Beadstrips of white with stepped squares of orange, dusty rose, and alternated with bent crosses (swastikas) in green.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0084
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- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0085
- Description
- A man's shirt, open along the sides, with long sleeves and notched edge at bottom which is longer at the sides than in the middle. Very thin white buckskin with extremely long fringes along length of sleeves. Bead strips along length of sleeves and over shoulders extending half way down front and b…
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- Title
- Beaded Shirt
- Date
- 1925 – 1935
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 76.0 x 53.0 x 51.0 cm
- Description
- A man's shirt, open along the sides, with long sleeves and notched edge at bottom which is longer at the sides than in the middle. Very thin white buckskin with extremely long fringes along length of sleeves. Bead strips along length of sleeves and over shoulders extending half way down front and back, plus beaded triangular panel in centre of back and another in front forming flap to cover front slit opening at neck. All beadwork on light blue background, motif on sleeve strip of rectangle outlined in green, then blue, then yellow, then red, and flanked on each end with yellow diamond and green triangles outlined in dark blue. Similar rectangle motif, different colour sequencing outlining rectangle, at each end of shoulder strip, with large green square outlined with blue, then red atop shoulder and green diamond with red square outlined in white at its centre and a blue toothed rake at the other end, hanging on either side of the shoulder. Triangular panels on front and back have red bar at top with three yellow and red diamonds hanging from it, and a red cross with yellow square at centre beneath. Yellow ochre bands set in from edge along sides of triangle are joined by a green band along the shorter, top side. The two long sides of the panel are surrounded by short fringes with very long fringes at the point at the bottom. The front triangular panel ties across the slit opening at the front of the neck with buckskin ties through two holes through the buckskin, the opposite side being sewn to the shirt. The open sides of the shirt tie together with buckskin things.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0085
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