- Date
- 1920 – 1935
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0084
- Description
- A white buckskin tunic cut from a single hide, the edges of the hide fringed out in twisted fringe, open at sides (no thongs), and the yoke edged for strength, arms inset at shoulders. White ground beadstrips running down chest over shoulders and down back, beaded on canvas, and beadstrips running …
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- Title
- Beaded Shirt
- Date
- 1920 – 1935
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 57.0 x 71.0 cm
- Description
- A white buckskin tunic cut from a single hide, the edges of the hide fringed out in twisted fringe, open at sides (no thongs), and the yoke edged for strength, arms inset at shoulders. White ground beadstrips running down chest over shoulders and down back, beaded on canvas, and beadstrips running down arms. Ermine trims along arms and down back. Beadstrips of white with stepped squares of orange, dusty rose, and alternated with bent crosses (swastikas) in green.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0084
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