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- Date
- 1880 – 1910
- Material
- skin, deer; fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0013
- Description
- A very short, completely beaded, tabard with beaded strips sewn to each shoulder forming cap sleeves. Each side of the jacket is beaded with a white background containing four large red and blue square figures with V-shaped “staircase” in the middle, on either side of central vertical bar of the s…
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- Title
- Beaded Jacket
- Date
- 1880 – 1910
- Material
- skin, deer; fibre; glass
- Dimensions
- 51.5 x 25.3 cm
- Description
- A very short, completely beaded, tabard with beaded strips sewn to each shoulder forming cap sleeves. Each side of the jacket is beaded with a white background containing four large red and blue square figures with V-shaped “staircase” in the middle, on either side of central vertical bar of the same red adn blues. A series of small read and blue stepped triangles from a band a the top and bottom of the bodice. The beads are worked on canvas which is rolled at the neck to form edging, and edged with red fabric at the bottom. Short bead strips are sewn to each shoulder, and each has a design of two large white diamond shapes around a blue diamond and a yellow ochre diamond, with a horizontally divided background in the blue and yellow ochre colour. The diamond shapes are outlined with black and red glass beads. Short buckskin thongs tie the tabard together at the corners under the arms.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- Plains
- Cree
- ceremonial
- children
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0013
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- Date
- prior to 1969
- Material
- skin, deer; moss
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1010
- Description
- Soft tan buckskin moss bag with fringe and moss, long narrow, draw string across front, fringed strips of buckskin with pinked edges sewn along line of eyelets, middle of the bag, V-shaped tongue of buckskin to cover draw string opening, large back flap folds over to close bag.
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- Title
- Mossbag
- Date
- prior to 1969
- Material
- skin, deer; moss
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 36.0 x 66.0 cm
- Description
- Soft tan buckskin moss bag with fringe and moss, long narrow, draw string across front, fringed strips of buckskin with pinked edges sewn along line of eyelets, middle of the bag, V-shaped tongue of buckskin to cover draw string opening, large back flap folds over to close bag.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- ceremonial
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1010
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- fibre; skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1011
- Description
- Blue velvet, beaded, with patterned cotton lining, buckskin strips with eyelets down middle, triangle and arrowhead shapes beaded of red, blue, green, and white, sides of velvet with flowers made of bead outlines and stitching inside, inner lining cotton with pink, orange and green flower patterns.
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- Title
- Mossbag
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- fibre; skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 14.5 x 24.0 x 67.0 cm
- Description
- Blue velvet, beaded, with patterned cotton lining, buckskin strips with eyelets down middle, triangle and arrowhead shapes beaded of red, blue, green, and white, sides of velvet with flowers made of bead outlines and stitching inside, inner lining cotton with pink, orange and green flower patterns.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- ceremonial
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.1011
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