- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0101 a,b
- Description
- A pair of small child's gloves of buckskin with beaded design on gauntlet and back of hand, and fringes along outside of gauntlet. Gauntlet has large bell shaped turquoise flower with white and orange pointed petals at the top, with smaller star shaped flowers of green centres with red petals on a …
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 22.1 cm
- Description
- A pair of small child's gloves of buckskin with beaded design on gauntlet and back of hand, and fringes along outside of gauntlet. Gauntlet has large bell shaped turquoise flower with white and orange pointed petals at the top, with smaller star shaped flowers of green centres with red petals on a turquoise stem in each corner at the top. Similar flowers with turquoise centres and black petals in each corner of the bottom a single star like blossom medallion with turquoise centre and red petals at the centre of the hand. Completely hand stitched with rolled edge at cuff. Cuff lined with patterned cotton having orange, blue and white oval shapes on black stems.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0101 a,b
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