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A woman's fitted sleeveless off-white vest with collar and lapels, mock pockets at the front waist line, and no front closures. Decorated with braid, appliquéd coloured fabric, sequins, and metallic gold-coloured thread. The textile is a woven, napped cotton or wool, resembling suede or felt. Red and blue textile on collar and lapels, as well as in appliquéd design, front and back, are of the same type of textile. Narrow gold-coloured braid (.3 cm.) forms a decorative free-form vine, leaf, and flower pattern attached by machine. Sequins and very small metal beads incorporated into design. Edge of collar, lapels, centre front, and bottom edge finished with saw-tooth edging (.5 cm.) of blue textile, gold-coloured braid (.8 cm.), and gold metal fringe (2 cm.) with gold-coloured metal sequins. Armholes finished with saw-tooth edging and gold-coloured braid.
Rectangular, ceremonial skirt, or apron. The main body of the piece is made of black cotton textile which is bordered at the top with a narrow multicoloured horizontal stripe. The lower third of the garment consists of a finely-woven, horizontally striped, multicoloured textile, with many woven geometric motifs. A horizontal double row of yellow-brown plastic buttons is affixed to the apron just above this patterned textile and extends almost all the way across the width of the garment. Many long strands of dark red glass and metallic cylindrical beads, interspersed with white seeds, are attached below this row of buttons and hang freely to the bottom of the garment. Each strand of beads is finished with a tuft of wool, resembling a small tassel.
A pair of skin moccasins with a floral design in beads sewn on to black felt on tongue. Floral beadwork design consists of one large red flower in two shades having a two-shaded yellow centre and one small pink and red flower with 'greenery' in two shades of blue and three shades of green. Quillwork colours include mauve, red, orange, and blue.
Small cone-shaped doll with wool fibre stuffed inside body. Body is covered in woven cedar bark. Head is round, and doll has black coloured fibre hair that is tied in two braids. Doll has a skin headdress that is decorated with beads.
Rectangular, ceremonial skirt, or apron. The main body of the piece is made of black cotton textile which is bordered at the top with a narrow multicoloured horizontal stripe. The lower third of the garment consists of a finely-woven, horizontally striped, multicoloured textile, with many woven geometric motifs. A horizontal row of cowrie shells (arranged in threes) is affixed to the apron just above this patterned textile and extends almost all the way across the width of the garment. Above the shells are three ‘rosettes’ made of cowrie shells -- one large design in the centre of the skirt and one small design spaced on either side of it. Many long strands of dark red glass and metallic cylindrical beads, interspersed with white seeds, are attached below this row of shells and hang freely to the bottom of the garment. Each strand of beads is finished with a tuft of wool, resembling a small tassel.
Rectangular, ceremonial skirt, or apron. The main body of the piece is made of black cotton textile which is bordered at the top with a yellow horizontal stripe and on each side with a narrow, geometrically patterned stripe. The lower third of the garment consists of a finely-woven, horizontally striped, multicoloured textile, with many woven geometric motifs. A horizontal row of closely-spaced pairs of plastic buttons is affixed to the apron just above this patterned textile and extends almost all the way across the width of the garment. Many long (38 cm) strands of dark red glass and metallic cylindrical beads, interspersed with white seeds, are attached in pairs below this row of buttons and hang freely to the bottom of the garment. Each strand of beads is finished with a tuft of wool, resembling a small tassel.
A woman’s headdress made from coarsely woven dark brown wool textile. Consisting of a headband and an attached narrow “tail” or streamer that hangs down the back. Lavishly decorated with cowrie shells, red, and white glass beads, buttons, and embroidery. The headband is embellished with two rows of cowrie shells separated by a row of red glass beads. The bottom edge of the headband is finished with multi-coloured embroidery resembling a braid. The “tail” is trimmed with many buttons, red, and white glass beads, and cowrie shells forming floral and geometric shapes. The bottom is fringed (about 13.5 cm) and the side edges are finished with red, blue, and yellow-green embroidery resembling a braid. The textile used to construct the headband is woven in plain weave while the streamer is made from warp yarns which have been braided and loosely woven together to form a fabric.
Large, thick, rectangular rug, boldly patterned and so densely embroidered in chain stitch that the supporting textile (heavy black wool twill, glued to a layer of burlap) is all but obscured. The large design motif, which is worked with green, gold, pink, orange, and off-white wool thread, consists of circles and geometric shapes within a square frame. There are three of these motifs in the centre of the rug. A narrow edge of the black textile is visible, as a narrow border, at the edge of all four sides of the rug, and a layer of dark brown, lightweight cotton textile is machine-stitched to the back of the piece. All of the colours are faded, however, more vibrant colours are visible if the rows of chain stitches are pushed aside to reveal the unexposed surfaces that lie close to the supporting textile.
Large, rectangular wool textile, bordered on the long edges with darkly coloured and brightly coloured woven stripes, and embellished horizontally with (mostly) lighter coloured narrow stripes in various patterns and colours, on an off-white background. Embellishments are either embroidered (counted thread technique) or worked in discontinuous supplemental weft. Fringed ends. The piece is woven in two identical, long, narrow halves which are joined in the centre, using a decorative embroidery stitch. The two ends of the textile are identical, mirror-images. The textile is reversible; the patterns on the two sides are similar but not identical.
Rectangular, ceremonial skirt, or apron. The main body of the piece is made of black cotton textile (pieced at the time) which is bordered on the right-hand side with a narrow multicoloured vertical stripe. Several ‘rosettes’ made of cowry shells are scattered across the width of the garment. The lower third of the garment consists of a finely-woven, horizontally striped, multicoloured textile, with many woven geometric motifs. Many long (38cm) strands of dark red glass and metallic cylindrical beads, interspersed with white seeds, are attached just above this textile and hang freely to the bottom of the garment. Each strand of beads is finished with a tuft of wool, resembling a small tassel.