- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- skin; hair; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0240
- Description
- A rectangular pouch of white buckskin with the bottom half made from hairy deer hide from the fetlocks of a deer with the bony outgrowth still attached. Bottom half of back of tan buckskin. White buckskin fringe across bottom of purse, and along bottom of white buckskin upper portion of bag. Lightl…
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- Title
- Beaded Bag
- Date
- 1965 – 1975
- Material
- skin; hair; glass; fibre
- Dimensions
- 37.0 x 20.0 cm
- Description
- A rectangular pouch of white buckskin with the bottom half made from hairy deer hide from the fetlocks of a deer with the bony outgrowth still attached. Bottom half of back of tan buckskin. White buckskin fringe across bottom of purse, and along bottom of white buckskin upper portion of bag. Lightly beaded along bottom of buckskin with blue and yellow triangles sitting on a thick band of red and yellow alternating bars, with an interrupted line of blue beads below and above. Bands continue around back of purse but triangles do not. Top edge of purse cut into large scallops and trimmed with red and blue bead edging. Double drawstring of buckskin through slits cut at neck of purse. Lined with white satin fabric.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0240
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