- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0235
- Description
- A small cylindrical buckskin bag, fringed around the bottom, completely beaded around the slides, with a wide notched collar, threaded through slits with a buckskin drawstring. Sides beaded with white background and motifs of light blue crosses outlined with orange squares, then darker blue squares…
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- Title
- Beaded Bag
- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- skin; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 18.0 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- A small cylindrical buckskin bag, fringed around the bottom, completely beaded around the slides, with a wide notched collar, threaded through slits with a buckskin drawstring. Sides beaded with white background and motifs of light blue crosses outlined with orange squares, then darker blue squares, then red squares forming a stepped diamond shape. Similar stepped squares form triangular shapes hanging from top and sitting on bottom of beaded band forming the sides. Beadwork banded with narrow light and dark blue alternating bars at top and bottom. Interior lined with lightweight white canvas.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0235
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