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Miniature boots made with red wool tops, a fur section for the length of the boots and plain skin feet. The foot portion has green embroidery thread woven around it. Multi-coloured embroidery thread tassels are attached on the side at the tops of the boots. Tied together with embroidery thread.
Long narrow beaded band with fringe at either end. There is a pattern of pink triangles with green and white centres on a white background from end to end. Fringe is also white, pink and green. Has matching earrings (see 2930/13 a-b).
Beaded band on cotton backing. Pattern is a series of geometric figures interspersed with flowers. There are three triangles (red, yellow and blue) at each end. Two hook and eye clasps are sewn onto the cotton backing.
Rattle carved in the shape of a bird, with black paint used to show the wings, feathers, eyes and beak of a loon. The rattle was carved in two pieces, top and bottom, which are tied together in three places with string. The holes in the fourth spot are missing the string. The rattle is hollow and makes noise when moved.
Button blanket made from a rectangular piece of red wool with a border of blue wool on three sides. The bottom has no border. The border has a pattern of shell buttons – a large one directly on the red edge with smaller buttons surrounding it. In the centre is a large bird in blue with a copper on its torso, outlined in small shell buttons. The back is unlined and the top has a button for wearing.
Circular braided cedar bark head ring with an abalone shell crest in the shape of an eagle attached to the front below the bark ties. Eaglet skin, with the fine, soft down still attached, covers the entire top area and hangs down in a tail at the back, below the head ring. The head ring is lined with cotton.
Dance apron made of dark red felt with a dark blue wool backing, green and black appliques, beaded designs and rows of bells. The designs are beaded and appliqued plant-like shapes, copper shields and geometrical shapes, surrounding a flower on a long stem. Smaller copper bells hang in three rows at the bottom of the apron, with seven larger silver coloured bells decorating a plant shape above the bottom band. The left, right and bottom edge of the blanket have a scalloped edge. Red cotton apron ties hang on each side.
Long wool sash, commonly called an arrow sash, or ceinture fléchée. Mainly red with coloured stripes and long fringes at each end. The middle stripe is solid red, with stripes of diagonally patterned white, blue, grey, green, yellow, green and blue toward both sides.
Dog whip made with a caribou lower leg and hoof attached at one end. The leg fits into a tightly sewn hide piece with a fringe cut around it, which is attached to a long thick cord. At the other end of the cord, twined and knotted strips of hide have been attached.
Headdress and carved wooden frontlet with an extensive ermine trailer. The frontlet’s main figure is an eagle with a small bear head and paws below and a wolf(?) head and paws above. The eagle has shell eyes and many abalone decorative inlays around it. Sea lion whiskers project upward from the top of the headdress. The entire upper head area is covered with eaglet skin with the fine down still attached. A long ermine trailer sewn on red cotton hangs below the headpiece. There is an abalone eagle crest attached on the left side.