- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0090
- Description
- A wide heavily beaded belt or bead strip, of heavy canvas with burgundy cotton backing. The beaded design is of conventional flowers in an overall symmetrical form mirroring from the centre of the belt, an orange yellow flower with green leaves, followed by, in sequence, a three petalled deep red a…
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- Title
- Beaded Belt
- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- fibre; glass
- Dimensions
- 7.3 x 91.6 cm
- Description
- A wide heavily beaded belt or bead strip, of heavy canvas with burgundy cotton backing. The beaded design is of conventional flowers in an overall symmetrical form mirroring from the centre of the belt, an orange yellow flower with green leaves, followed by, in sequence, a three petalled deep red and blue flower, two leaves, a white and pale blue flower, three yellow and green tulip shaped flowers, a deep red and vermillion flower and a long stalked branching flower with three buds of vermillion, yellow, and grey beads. The ground is a deep blue bordered on both sides by a narrow green band.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0090
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- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3023 a,b
- Description
- Plain gloves with beaded gauntlets. White background with different designs front (floral) and back (diamond geometric), and small circles around top edge. Fringes along gauntlet edges. Gauntlets lined with floral fabric. Yellow tag found in (b), the left glove, “Silas or Norman Abraham 1910 - …
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1910 – 1920
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 39.0 cm
- Description
- Plain gloves with beaded gauntlets. White background with different designs front (floral) and back (diamond geometric), and small circles around top edge. Fringes along gauntlet edges. Gauntlets lined with floral fabric. Yellow tag found in (b), the left glove, “Silas or Norman Abraham 1910 - 1920 ca.”
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3023 a,b
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- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- skin
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.1027 a,b
- Description
- Two large rawhide pack bags. (a) 81.0x72.0, two piece, one for pouch, one for flap. Rawhide strips through holes in front, five sets of holes on flap, two reinforced with rawhide, small rope looped through dexter holes on flap. Hand sewn with hemp-like string, repairs with white string. (b) 72.…
- Title
- Pack Saddlebag
- Date
- 1900 – 1930
- Material
- skin
- Description
- Two large rawhide pack bags. (a) 81.0x72.0, two piece, one for pouch, one for flap. Rawhide strips through holes in front, five sets of holes on flap, two reinforced with rawhide, small rope looped through dexter holes on flap. Hand sewn with hemp-like string, repairs with white string. (b) 72.0x73.0, one piece, folded into pouch with flap, sewn at sides. Three sets of holes in front, nine sets on flap, three rawhide strips.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- Silas Abraham
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 106.06.1027 a,b
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- Date
- 1850 – 1910
- Material
- horn; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0029
- Description
- Very old dried and cracked bison? horn with tip broken off to leave small hole. Strap of buckskin thong tied around at tip and attached to another thong tied around at open broad end of horn.
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- Title
- Powder Horn
- Date
- 1850 – 1910
- Material
- horn; skin
- Dimensions
- 5.7 x 4.3 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Very old dried and cracked bison? horn with tip broken off to leave small hole. Strap of buckskin thong tied around at tip and attached to another thong tied around at open broad end of horn.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.10.0029
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