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Bag2762/13

Flat rectangular beaded skin bag with wide fringes. Skin panels, the back one longer than the front, are sewn together on three sides, leaving the top open, and have a dark blue fabric lining. Blue beadwork that covers all of the front panel and the upper scalloped part of the back piece has designs that include white and navy crosses, triangles of orange, green and navy, and a navy border. Small loop of dark thread is attached to the top of the back panel.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass, skin and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Vest2762/25

Large red vest with beaded front, skin ties, and skin fringe around waist. Vertical rows of pink, light green, dark green and black glass bead crosses, squares, and other motifs set within a while bead background are sewn onto two panels of light brown fabric with a border of the same red wool fabric used for the back panel. Along the back, at the waist, is a strip of striped cream, black and red fabric (Hudson Bay blanket ?) and long strips of deer skin are attached at the shoulders.

Culture
Cree
Material
wool fibre, cotton fibre, glass and deer skin
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt2762/19

Beaded fabric belt with rawhide ties at both ends. A front panel of beige fabric, stitched with strung beads to create three black, red and blue geometric triangle designs in a white ground, has a red fabric backing that folds around the edges in a border that has a few white beads sewn on along the edges of the design motifs.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass, cotton fibre and rawhide skin
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pipe Bag2762/10

Long pipe bag with beaded geometric design and long fringe, tied near top with skin strip. Yellow skin bag has four deep, black and white bead rimmed scallops and turquoise bead rimmed diamond shaped cut-outs at the top end and a seam down one side, A heavy beadwork panel encircling the bottom, above the thick fringe, has a different design in a white ground on each side, one with expanded crosses in turquoise, mustard yellow, red and purple beads, the other with a small square of pink and purple dividing two crosses on top of three mountains in turquoise, red and yellow.

Culture
Cree
Material
skin, glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt2762/20

Woman's beaded belt with attached tobacco pouch, awl sheath and knife sheath. Beadwork design on the belt includes crosses, squares, lines and diamond shapes in green, yellow, purple and pink on a white ground. Lined on the back with a plaid fabric. Sheath has a fringe down one side and diagonal line beadwork decoration on the front, in the same colours as the belt. The awl sheath has a skin fringe at top and bottom, and the drawstring pouch, with scalloped top, has beading on the bottom section in mustard yellow, turquoise, red, and navy designs, on a white ground.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass, cotton fibre, skin and wood ?
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasins2762/2 a-b

Pair of child's moccasins with beadwork. The design includes two navy blue, light blue, and red extended crosses at the front and four navy and red squares on the sides lie within a gray background that is rimmed at the bottom with turquoise and navy blue. Strings of beads are sewn with dark brown thread onto pale brown fabric that is joined at the heel and sewn onto a sole of deer ? skin. A trim of tan coloured fabric is folded over the cuff rim and along the front edge (no tongue).

Culture
Plains Cree
Material
glass, cotton fibre and deer skin ?
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasins2762/4 a-b

Pair of moccasins decorated at the toe with short horizontal strings of small glass beads. The thick strip is made up of a yellow line with navy crosses between two lines of alternating red and blue triangles. Stiff yellow leather soles are sewn to cream-coloured deer ? skin tops with thick heel seams and skin laces threaded through one hole.

Culture
Plains Cree
Material
glass, deer skin ?, leather skin and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Rattle2762/37

Small hand rattle with a cork stopper in the handle shaft has stones ? inside the bulbous end. It consists of two halves, pieces of stiff, thick skin, sewn together from handle to top with thick twisted cotton threads that are knotted together at the top around a bundle of tiny twigs.

Culture
Cree
Material
rawhide skin ?, cotton fibre, stone ?, wood and cork bark
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt2762/17

Blue, pink and white beaded belt with small pouch and skin tie. The long panel of cross-motif beadwork, stitched onto a strip of light brown fabric covered with a dark brown fabric, has a backing of striped red, blue and cream flannel fabric. Beaded semi-circular pouch attached to the bottom of the belt near one end has pocket shaped backing of the same flannel and is accessible only from the inside of the belt.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass, cotton fibre and skin
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sheath2762/29

Front beaded panel of a sheath. White, yellow, and blue beads decorate a V-shaped panel of red wool fabric with burgundy and beige striped fabric backing and a gold satin border trim. A string of small metal beads is sewn on around the edge and two long skin strips are folded in half and stitched on to the bottom tip.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass, wool fibre, cotton fibre, fibre, skin and metal
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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