Beaded Necklace
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- glass; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.3026
- Description
- Beaded medallion (11.0 cm long, 11.5 cm wide) decorated with a black bison head with white horns, ears, eyes and nostyrils on a blue background. Tassels (7.0 cm long) with grey, red and orange beads hang from the bottom edge of the medallion. Two neck straps (53.0 cm long, 1.5 cm wide) are bucks…
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- Title
- Beaded Necklace
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- glass; skin
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 72.0 cm
- Description
- Beaded medallion (11.0 cm long, 11.5 cm wide) decorated with a black bison head with white horns, ears, eyes and nostyrils on a blue background. Tassels (7.0 cm long) with grey, red and orange beads hang from the bottom edge of the medallion. Two neck straps (53.0 cm long, 1.5 cm wide) are buckskin with beaded edges and bands of blue and red and bands of blue and orange. The straps are attached to the back of the medallion at one end and have a tassel at the other.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- regalia
- beadwork
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.3026
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