- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0089 a-c
- Description
- (a) The tunic is a machine sewn sleeved garment of light buckskin, open at the sides with thongs ties, neck is finished with turned over seam. Heavily fringed along sleeves and down edges of bodice. Yellow ground beadwork strips form yoke from chest to back and along sleeves, and an inset "cravat" …
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- Title
- Set Regalia
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 78.0 cm
- Description
- (a) The tunic is a machine sewn sleeved garment of light buckskin, open at the sides with thongs ties, neck is finished with turned over seam. Heavily fringed along sleeves and down edges of bodice. Yellow ground beadwork strips form yoke from chest to back and along sleeves, and an inset "cravat" is set at base of neck opening. Pattern is of orange arrows with blue accents. (b,c) the leggings are each made from a single piece of hide, the edges of which are pinked. Four tie positions at outside, two of which on the front are accented with blue rosettes or medallions with small inset red diamonds, a similar yellow ground beadstrip runs the length of the leg. Longer thongs at the top for holding leggings to waist.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0089 a-c
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