- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0100 a,b
- Description
- A pair of high gauntleted buckskin gloves. Gloves cut from single piece of leather, with insets on fingers and thumb. Thick fell where gauntlet is attached to glove, and fringe along outside. On back of glove is a leaf like pattern in vermilion and charcoal edged by brass coloured beads. On back o…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- A pair of high gauntleted buckskin gloves. Gloves cut from single piece of leather, with insets on fingers and thumb. Thick fell where gauntlet is attached to glove, and fringe along outside. On back of glove is a leaf like pattern in vermilion and charcoal edged by brass coloured beads. On back of gauntlet is a geometrical pattern of leaves in red and blue bordered by white, emerging from a central "diamond" of charcoal and gold-silver and green leaves, bordered by white.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Blackfoot
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0100 a,b
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