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Date
1960 – 1979
Material
glass; skin; metal; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.07.0069
Description
A beaded belt with narrow short buckskin strap at one end and small metal buckle on buckskin strap at other. Beadwork on canvas with light green background having four diamond shapes outlined in red and blue spaced along its length. At the centre between two of the diamonds are two stepped triangle…
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Title
Beaded Belt
Date
1960 – 1979
Material
glass; skin; metal; fibre
Dimensions
5.0 x 89.0 cm
Description
A beaded belt with narrow short buckskin strap at one end and small metal buckle on buckskin strap at other. Beadwork on canvas with light green background having four diamond shapes outlined in red and blue spaced along its length. At the centre between two of the diamonds are two stepped triangles with their points together made of small squares of red, blue, yellow and green beads. At each side between two diamonds is an orange white orange diagonal stripe and a dark red blue dark red diagonal line with a blue and red stepped "X" between. The long edges have red and white beaded edging. Belt is lined with muslin.
Subject
Indigenous
beadwork
regalia
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.07.0069
Images
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