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Beaded Saddle46.78.7

Henry L. Batterman Fund

Culture
Cree-Metis
Material
hide, bead, pigment stroud wool cloth, deer ?, buffalo hair ?, old hide parfleche, metal and canvas
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Great Lakes Girls2009.1a-b

The high heeled tennis shoes, size 6, used for the base are made by shoe designer Steve Madden. Then the artist, Teri Greeves, hand sews all the beads and original design elements onto the canvas base. The design is inspired by the Great Lakes tribes’ designs, as Teri's husband, furniture designer, Dennis Esquival, is Anishinabe and she wanted to do something that reflects his region. Floral motifs, in complimentary colors are on the inside panel of each shoe with a coral, spiny oyster shell cabochon forming the center of each flower. The outside panels depict contemporary jingle dress dancers swaying to the throbbing drums and singing that accompanies these popular dances performed during powwows. During these dances each woman competes not only in dance performance but in over-all quality and beauty of their dance regalia. Before the 1830s the jingles on these dresses would have been made from porcupine quills but this material changed sometime in the mid-1800s to commercially traded tobacco can lids, rolled into cones. When prolifically sewn on to the dresses every movement would make them jingle. Each woman depicted on these shoes wears full regalia, inclusive of beaded dress, moccasins, and a belt with real silver conchos. This detailed beadwork melds traditional technique with modern day commerce into a lively, fun and remarkable sense of contemporary aesthetics. The shoes can stand alone as aesthetic sculptural works or as examples of creative change over time.

Material
glass bead, bugle bead, swarovski crystal, sterling silver stamped conchae, spiny oyster shell cabochon and canvas high-heeled sneakers
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Pair of Beaded Arm Bands32.2099.32582a-b

Bequest of W.S. Morton Mead

Culture
Blackfoot
Material
bead, canvas and cotton
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Basket | Tumpline1-1261

The yarn is red. The cloth is dark blue.

Culture
Lower Fraser River
Material
cedar root, cherry bark, tin, canvas, native hemp, yarn, cloth and cord
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Headdress | Frontlet2312

George Emmons collected this headdress from a chief of the Koskedi Raven clan at Sitka, Alaska. Although Tlingit headdresses are often attributed to the Tsimshian, many frontlets, including this one, are clearly Tlingit in style. The frontlet's height, the form and arrangement of figures, the blue-painted rim with its widely separated abalone plaques, the red trade flannel, and the mallard-skin border, all point to Tlingit origin. The figures carved on the frontlet are a raven and a large head that resembles a bear. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

Culture
Tlingit: Sitka
Material
wood, ermine, swansdown, sea lion whisker, flicker feather, canvas, abalone shell and paint
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Apron1992-33/1
Mask part | Sea Monster Back Mask2.5E671

The paint is red, black, green, and white.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
canvas, stick and paint
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Petroglyph Rubbing2000-119/5

Brown wax rubbing; deer head image on canvas. Written on canvas hand-rubbed by D. Leen (in Pencil) Pictured in "Indian Petroglyphs" Hill and Hill 1974 pg 150. Part of larger panel at the site. Identified as a seer's head (stylized). M. Alder 3/16/01

Material
canvas
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Petroglyph Rubbing2.5E567

Petroglyph rubbing done in oil on canvas (white), oils: black, green,brown;attached to two wooden dowels, painted black, with leather thong tied onto top dowel for hanging. Cardboard tube case. Design is circular face with triangle ears; semicircle "cap"; insect shaped body with four "legs"Associated item documentation: Three pages of sample rubbings in accession file.

Material
canvas and oil
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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