- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3056 a,b
- Description
- Tanned buckskin, heavily beaded gauntlets of blue background edged with a band of red and white interlocking triangles and having single large yellow red and green geometric triangle motif at the centre. Three white and red geometric shapes along edge. Three yellow and purple strips on back of ha…
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- Title
- Gauntlet Gloves
- Date
- 1940 – 1950
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 36.0 cm
- Description
- Tanned buckskin, heavily beaded gauntlets of blue background edged with a band of red and white interlocking triangles and having single large yellow red and green geometric triangle motif at the centre. Three white and red geometric shapes along edge. Three yellow and purple strips on back of hand. Fringes (14.0 cm long) along gauntlet and glove edge. Gauntlets lined with yellow fabric. Each gauntlet has a machine stitched outline of a flower on the plain hide surface.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3056 a,b
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