- Date
- 1945 β 1960
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0103 a,b
- Description
- A pair of beaded buckskin gloves with gauntlets. Hand bodies are single piece of leather with insets at fingers and set in thumb. Gauntlets are buckskin, and fringed at outer extremities. Back of hand is decorated with single conventional blossom in red and light blue. Back of gauntlet has large meβ¦
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1945 β 1960
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 17.0 x 33.0 cm
- Description
- A pair of beaded buckskin gloves with gauntlets. Hand bodies are single piece of leather with insets at fingers and set in thumb. Gauntlets are buckskin, and fringed at outer extremities. Back of hand is decorated with single conventional blossom in red and light blue. Back of gauntlet has large medallion or rosette in orange, green, yellow, and blue with four conventionalized flowers with red and light blue leaves and centres of green, yellow, and indigo, radiating from large medallion. Lining of gauntlet is striped flannel. Some machine stitching.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.0103 a,b
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