Beadwork Item Number: 3558/8 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Beadwork image on cloth of the Peel River watershed; front is brown, back is light green. Outline of watershed, done in light green, is filled with flowers, a fish jumping from a river, and two moose; flowers are pink, blue and white, fish is green and red, moose are brown with dark brown and white antlers. More pink and blue flowers are beaded in the bottom left corner of the cloth, black bird flying in top left, and a howling wolf, done in silver, is in the top right. Back of work is undecorated. Edge is bordered with blue beads.

Narrative

Gifted to Thomas Berger for his work on the Gwich'in Peel River Watershed case in 2018.