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Headdress680/1

A cream-coloured and brown tipped feather headdress with a beadwork head band. The bottom ends of the feathers are wrapped with red fabric and string and attached to the beadwork head band with brown leather loops. The beadwork head band has a white background and a pattern of alternating dark blue crosses and multi-coloured triangles with a dark blue centre surrounded by lines of green, light blue, and red.

Culture
Sioux
Material
feather, glass, wool fibre ?, fibre and cotton fibre ?
Made in
USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gorget1590/263

Flat crescent-shaped gorget engraved with American eagle with branch in right claw and arrows in left claw. Banner in eagle’s beak with words. Twelve stars surround eagle’s head. Two holes in upper edges through which beaded necklace is secured. Beads are mainly red with white beads interspersed and one blue bead at centre back. Maker’s mark in rectangular cartouche.

Culture
Eastern Woodlands
Material
silver alloy metal, fibre and glass
Made in
Albany, New York, USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MoccasinsD2.6 a-b

A pair of skin moccasins with the sole, which is tanned hide, sewn onto the side. Main beadwork design consists of three yellow, red, green, and dark blue triangles on a white background outlined with an alternating pattern of red and yellow triangles separated by red and yellow vertical lines, respectively, on a light blue background. Thinner hide for ankle cover. There are long tie-laces.

Culture
Plains
Material
skin and glass
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MoccasinD2.39

One rawhide skin moccasin with the sole sewn on and sewn up the back. Fringe at back and on tongue. Cotton binding on top of ankle pieces. Beaded on top with a large green triangle from which emanates two dark blue protrusions on a light blue background outlined with dark blue. The sides are beaded with red triangles having a yellow centre and outlined with dark blue on a light blue background.

Culture
Crow
Material
skin, glass and cotton fibre
Made in
USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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KnifeNe206 a-b

Knife (part a) with black wood handle and blade cut smaller. Blade has a worn inscription on one side. Sheath (part b) of leather with red, white and blue beadwork and a fringe on one side.

Culture
Plains ?
Material
metal, wood ?, skin and glass
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ArmbandD2.26 a-b

Pair of rectangular armbands with beadwork. Leather has white, green, yellow, red, turquoise, and navy beads (also along edge). Hide thongs for ties attached together by a thong covered with brass beads. One has small bag attached.

Culture
Sioux
Material
leather skin, glass and rawhide skin
Made in
North America
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rifle CoverD2.85

Rifle cover made of hide with beaded panels and a 38 centimetre long twisted fringe at the stock end. The beading is symmetric at the barrel end, but different motifs are on each side at the stock end. Thinner end has same double-sided design of a red zig zag line with pink and yellow triangles on one side and with white triangles with dark brown rectangles emanating from the rim on the other side, all of which is surrounded on three sides by an outline of black bow-tie-shapes on a light blue background. Thicker end has a dark brown x-shape on a white background with two dark blue diamond shapes outlined with red on opposite ends of each other of the 'x' and with two sets of four black rectangles on opposite sides of each other of the 'x'. The other side has a yellow and light blue diamond shape outlined with red on a white background with four cross shapes, one at each corner. Thicker end is surrounded by red triangles with a central vertical yellow line on a light blue background. Pieces of red wool are woven into the ends of two lengths of fringe.

Culture
Plains
Material
skin, glass and wool fibre
Made in
Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Doll358/5

Miniature doll that has a pointed body wrapped in skin and decorated with purple beads, a small circular cream coloured head, and fine protruding hair. Head of doll is resting on a pink coloured blanket that is decorated with purple beads around its perimeter.

Culture
Plains ?
Material
skin, wool fibre and glass
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PipeD3.36

Long, horizontal pipe with a wooden stem and brass bowl that ends in an upwards curve. Middle segment of wooden stem is wrapped in black and white snake skin(?), edged with purple, red and yellow ribbon, and has two long skin tassels hanging from it with red and white beaded decorations. Scalloped bottom of curved brass bowl is punctuated with a series of holes, through which strings of beads and strips of leather tied to feathers and ribbon are strung.

Culture
Haudenosaunee
Material
glass, clay, tin metal, plastic ?, brass metal, wood, snake skin ?, skin and feather
Made in
Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag537/13

A white skin square bag with beadwork on one side, a zig zag edged handle, and fringe at the bottom. The bag is edged with light blue beads on the sides and light blue and orange beads on the top. The main beadwork design consists of an orange flower with light blue inside at the bottom corners, a light blue flower outlined with dark blue in the middle, a dark blue flower outlined with light blue and with yellow inside at the sides, two yellow flower with dark blue inside at the top middle, two more dark blue flowers outlined with light blue and with yellow inside above in the middle and a green maple leaf with orange and white inside at the top corners.

Culture
Stoney Nakoda
Material
skin, glass and fibre
Made in
Mini Thni, Alberta, Canada and Morley, Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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