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Pouch composed of off-white skin in a classic shield shape trimmed with off-white ermine fur around the edges and with five ermine tails attached along the bottom. The pouch is embroidered with a floral motif in pink, purple, yellow, orange-grown and green. Lined with off-white silk.
Hunter in a kayak with three caribou heads and shoulders emerging from a flat platform. Platform is rounded on the corners, three sides are relatively straight and the fourth is angled. The hunter holds an antler paddle (part b) in one hand and a copper tipped, antler spear, poised to throw, in the other. His hood is down and his hair is indicated by fine lines. Caribou each have two removable antlers (parts c-h), rounded snouts, dots for eyes and small upright ears. Two parallel zigzag lines run across platform in front of front two cariboo, indicating water movement. V-shaped parallel lines radiate from third caribou and kayak. Unsigned.
Wide, round-bottomed boat (a) with sharply pointed bow and stern. Frame consists of wood slats fitted and lashed together with sinew. Skin is tightly stretched over frame and laced down. Boat has oar locks, formed by two pegs projecting upwards, two on starboard side, two on port, and three wood thwarts. Boat has five long, carved wooden paddles: (b) to (f) each flare gradually from handle end to blunt paddle end. All wood of boat and oars is yellow-white in colour.
Light brown leather moccasin with three pieces hand sewn with cotton thread; insole, cuff; three laces; black cotton rounded triangle sewn on tongue; decorated with thirteen blue bead triangles around edge; fourteen green beads at base of triangle.
Cured, natural-coloured, slipper-type hide moccasin with shallow boot legging. Remnants of floral design glass-bead embroidery; orange flower, green leaves, blue and brown bud, black stems. Zig-zag cut hide trim at cuff attachment; three holes on each front edge of cuff. Double sole attached with running stitch.
Ice-pick with a pointed shaft of copper set in a light, yellow-white bone handle; handle tapers to a point at the end.
Vest covered with floral beadwork. The basis of the garment is a trade tweed vest (man's); the front has been covered with black wool fabric, trimmed with blue fabric, embroidered with beads in floral designs and trimmed with small brass buttons; the garment was lined with blue cotton at some later stage and there are no armholes in this lining; also, the armholes in the vest were partially sewn closed.
Rectangular belt covered with bright, multicoloured quillwork, backed with printed flannel, and bound at the ends with black velvet. Green glass beads sewn along length of belt on both edges. The design on the belt is symmetrical; closest to the edges is a pink quill in a zigzag pattern with mauve background closest to the edges and brown on the other side of the zigzag. There is a white stripe. At the centre is a yellow diamond pattern with brown background and pink strips at the centre of each diamond.
Rectangular belt covered with multicoloured quillwork, backed with black-navy wool, lined with a row of white beads, and bound at the ends with red wool. Quills dyed red, purple, white. Geometrical design: octagons connected by an adjoining side to hexagons. Middle of figures has two parallel lines with squares in the middle.
Babiche bag with pink and blue yarn tassel decorations. Main body of bag done in an open weave; babiche is white with a thin brown stripe towards top edge. Bag opening consists of a wide band of caribou skin with two ties along top edge, for securing bag closed. Long hide strap stitched to outer corners of opening. Yarn decorations done in rows of four, three, and three on front; four tassels along bottom edge and additional ones on each side. Back of bag is undecorated.