topic:"Siksika" found 6 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: A’pistotooki kii Ihkitsik Kaawa’pomaahkaa is a delightful modern story about animals, their gifts, and why they were put on earth. (back cover)

Notes: The mentors and publishers of this series have supported the First Nations authors to share their stories under the guidance of traditional language speakers and Elders

ISBN: 9780969448969

Accession Number: P2020.12; P2023.17 reference copy (2)

Call Number: 05 M11a

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Treaty 7 Language Books via Calgary Public Library

Websites

https://calgarylibrary.ca/connect/indigenous-services/treaty-7-language-books/

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Beaded Leggings

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Date: 1875 – 1890

Material: skin; skin, ermine; hair, sheep; glass; fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.05.0010 a,b

Description: Natural skin leggings fringed along the length of one side. A beaded strip along the outside length of each legging has a white background with a coloured design. There are ermine tails fastened into the fringe. The fringe is approximately 10 cm long.

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Title: Beaded Leggings

Date: 1875 – 1890

Material: skin; skin, ermine; hair, sheep; glass; fibre

Dimensions: 27.0 x 71.0 cm

Description: Natural skin leggings fringed along the length of one side. A beaded strip along the outside length of each legging has a white background with a coloured design. There are ermine tails fastened into the fringe. The fringe is approximately 10 cm long.

Subject: Indigenous; Stoney; Blackfoot; Siksika; beadwork; decorative; regalia

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.05.0010 a,b

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Beaded Leggings

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Date: 1875 – 1900

Material: skin; fibre, cotton; glass

Catalogue Number: 103.05.0045 a,b

Description: A pair of beaded leggings worn on the leg from the knee to the ankle. The leggings tie on at the back of the leg with thongs. The leggings have a design of three vertical stripes and two diamond shapes of yellow, red, green and blue on a white background.

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Title: Beaded Leggings

Date: 1875 – 1900

Material: skin; fibre, cotton; glass

Dimensions: 35.0 x 30.0 cm

Description: A pair of beaded leggings worn on the leg from the knee to the ankle. The leggings tie on at the back of the leg with thongs. The leggings have a design of three vertical stripes and two diamond shapes of yellow, red, green and blue on a white background.

Subject: Indigenous; Blood; Blackfoot; Siksika; decorative; regalia; beadwork

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 103.05.0045 a,b

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Beaded Shirt

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Date: 1875 – 1890

Material: skin, deer; skin, ermine; hair, sheep; glass

Catalogue Number: 103.05.0011

Description: A man's deerskin shirt with fringe at the ends of the sleeves. The shirt has strips of beadwork at the shoulders that extend down both the front and back of the garment with a fringe of ermine tails along the length of the outside edge. The background of the beadwork is white with an x-shaped pa…

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Title: Beaded Shirt

Date: 1875 – 1890

Material: skin, deer; skin, ermine; hair, sheep; glass

Dimensions: 53.0 (shoulder) x 81.0 cm

Description: A man's deerskin shirt with fringe at the ends of the sleeves. The shirt has strips of beadwork at the shoulders that extend down both the front and back of the garment with a fringe of ermine tails along the length of the outside edge. The background of the beadwork is white with an x-shaped pattern of blue, yellow and red. There is a medallion of beadwork in the centre of both the front and back of the shirt, with an ermine tail hanging from the centre of each medallion.