- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass; hair
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0083 a-e
- Description
- (a) The tunic body is made of a large white buckskin hide which forms front and back, though a tail has been added at the back to complete its length. Thongs hold garment closed at sides and inset sleeves are sewn at shoulders, thonged on the inseam. Ermine hanging in profusion as fringe along back…
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- Title
- Set Regalia
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass; hair
- Dimensions
- 57.0 x 83.0 cm
- Description
- (a) The tunic body is made of a large white buckskin hide which forms front and back, though a tail has been added at the back to complete its length. Thongs hold garment closed at sides and inset sleeves are sewn at shoulders, thonged on the inseam. Ermine hanging in profusion as fringe along backs of both arms to shoulder blades. Blue ground beadwork on yoke pattern decorated with red and yellow triangles forming diamonds and bounded in indigo on breast plate, and along stripe which run from front over shoulders to a back yoke. (b,c) are leggings cut from single hides, white buckskin, thong-laced at the sides, and ermine pelts hanging along the outside edge of a blue ground, diamond and arrow decorated, head strip on the front. (d,e) white buckskin moccasins, heavily beaded in light blue on vamp and sides, Rocky Mountain style, with long thong ties, and tongues.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0083 a-e
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