- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0080 a,b
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded tan buckskin gloves with gauntlets and fringe at side of gauntlet. Back of hand contains single beaded red cross with blue centre outlined with light blue squares forming it into a diamond shape with short blue oblique lines from each point of the diamond. The gauntlet cont…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1965 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 34.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded tan buckskin gloves with gauntlets and fringe at side of gauntlet. Back of hand contains single beaded red cross with blue centre outlined with light blue squares forming it into a diamond shape with short blue oblique lines from each point of the diamond. The gauntlet contains a similar green cross with orange centre outlined with orange squares then light blue squares forming a diamond shape, with oblique blue lines from each point connecting red crosses with white centres outlined with green squares, and smaller green crosses with red centres. Gauntlet lined with heavy canvas through which beading has been stitched, canvas stamped with blue printing, "9 1/2 Yds" on left glove, "--ON 1955" on right. Reinforced with machine stitching on fingers, around thumb and gauntlet, and on back of gauntlet.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0080 a,b
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