- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass; hair; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0078
- Description
- Fringed white buckskin with beaded orange diamonds on yoke and sleeves, and bells across front yoke. Soft, hand tanned skin is machine stitched and hand stitched, with simple round neck and elbow length sleeves. Fringed at hem, edge of sleeves, down sides, and around yoke, yoke and sleeves decorate…
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- Title
- Beaded Dress
- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass; hair; metal
- Dimensions
- 59.0 x 110.0 cm
- Description
- Fringed white buckskin with beaded orange diamonds on yoke and sleeves, and bells across front yoke. Soft, hand tanned skin is machine stitched and hand stitched, with simple round neck and elbow length sleeves. Fringed at hem, edge of sleeves, down sides, and around yoke, yoke and sleeves decorated with large stepped diamonds of red, orange, blue and white beads, having oblique green feather stitched lines from the sides. Trimmed at edge of neck and sleeves and shoulders with narrow beaded bands of orange with green and blue pattern, fringe strands across front strung with cylindrical blue and white trade beads, with a jingle bell at the bottom of each. Four small tassels of brown fur, (squirrel?) on front and back of yoke. Double strand tassels of green trade beads with loops of pearlized beads at the end are spaced around the middle of the skirt in a line.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0078
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