Jacket

Item number 3456/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Buckskin jacket with embroidery and fringe decoration. The jacket has a wide notch collar, long sleeves, two pockets and centre opening. Three plastic buttons along the right side of the opening. Buttons are golden brown and dark black-brown. Long tassel hanging from collar interior along left side of opening. Back of jacket is lightly pleated, flaring out at the bottom. Floral designs embroidered on either side of the jacket opening, along the cuffs and collar, and above the pockets. Flowers, vines and leaves done in red, light pink, light green, light blue, yellow, gold, light purple, dark purple, dark blue, olive green, white and black. Fringe attached to the bottom edge of the collar and along all seam lines. Fringe along sleeves and down the centre back seam is short, fringe along collar, shoulders and the side seams is long. Interior is unlined.

Narrative

According to family history, this jacket was gifted to the donor’s husband’s grandfather, C. Donald MacKinnon, by a Lillooet Chief from the Pavilion area, when Donald and his brother saved the Chief’s son from drowning, sometime before 1914. He was told the jacket had been worn by the Chief at the celebration for Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1897. His brother was gifted a pair of gauntlets. Donald's father was John McLellan MacKinnon who owned the Double Fountain Ranch, located in the Pavilion area.