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Date
1890 – 1939
Material
metal; glass; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.08.1105
Description
Evening bag with shaped metal opening. Metal is silver plated with elaborately embossed design of roses and cherubs. The bag has a cross over snap closure and a silver linked chain carrying handle. The bag is made of black beads witha colourful design on both sides of a peacock sitting on a bran…
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Title
Beaded Purse
Date
1890 – 1939
Material
metal; glass; fibre
Description
Evening bag with shaped metal opening. Metal is silver plated with elaborately embossed design of roses and cherubs. The bag has a cross over snap closure and a silver linked chain carrying handle. The bag is made of black beads witha colourful design on both sides of a peacock sitting on a branch. Looped strands of black beads hang from the bottom edge.
Subject
Mary Schaffer
birds
needlework
beadwork
crafts
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
103.08.1105
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Date
1925 – 1940
Material
hide, deer; glass; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.07.0018 a,b
Description
A pair of woman's soft deerskin gloves with fringed gauntlets. There is some decorative stitching on the gauntlets. Each glove also has ornate floral beadwork of orange, blue, white and brown beads that almost covers the top of each hand and the front of each gauntlet. The gloves have a machine s…
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Title
Gauntlet Gloves
Date
1925 – 1940
Material
hide, deer; glass; fibre
Dimensions
18.0 x 25.0 cm
Description
A pair of woman's soft deerskin gloves with fringed gauntlets. There is some decorative stitching on the gauntlets. Each glove also has ornate floral beadwork of orange, blue, white and brown beads that almost covers the top of each hand and the front of each gauntlet. The gloves have a machine stitched design on the back, and are lined with red fabric.
Subject
Indigenous
Cree
Norway House
decorative
regalia
beadwork
needlework
Metis
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.07.0018 a,b
Images
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This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Read more.
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