- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0102 a,b
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded, well made gloves with gauntlets. Hand bodies are made of a single piece of leather folded on inside, fingers with inset panels machine stitched in, and thumb set in as well. Gauntlets of leather with fringes at outsides. Back of hand has a simple white floral motif bordere…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 33.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of lightly beaded, well made gloves with gauntlets. Hand bodies are made of a single piece of leather folded on inside, fingers with inset panels machine stitched in, and thumb set in as well. Gauntlets of leather with fringes at outsides. Back of hand has a simple white floral motif bordered in vermilion, and one in white with a blue centre and bordered in orange, the three blossoms connected by "dotted" beads in rose. Gauntlet is lined with flour sacking cotton.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0102 a,b
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