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An armband lined with red material sewn onto small holes along edge. Flower-like cutout border along the edges. In the centre is an engraving of a heron standing in cat-tail marsh. To the left is an engraved portrait in profile of King George III in a cartouche surrounded by ribbons and flowers, and to the right is a similar portrait of Queen Charlotte. Maker’s marks in five cartouches below heron.
Ankle-high reindeer fur boots with up-turned toes and multicoloured laces, made of white fur with brown fur soles. The foot opening is edged with brown skin. The six loops on each tongue are also made with brown skin. Criss-crossed through the tongue loops is a long multicoloured string. The string is made up of red, yellow-green and blue strands. On the ends there are square tassels in red, yellow and green.
Woman’s reindeer fur tunic. The tunic has a standing collar, v-neck opening and long sleeves. The tunic hangs straight from the shoulders in front and is semi-fitted across the back, flared below the waist by means of triangular gores. There is a pocket slit in the left front lined with a red checked fabric. The collar is trimmed with multicoloured ribbon, rickrack and red wool fabric. There are red and yellow wool strips inserted into shoulder, sleeve and back seams for decoration and stability. The sleeve ends are trimmed with red wool fabric strips. The hem is unfinished.
Woman's hat. Hat with ear flaps made of reindeer fur and lined with shearling lamb. Trimmed with a band of red wool fabric and rickrack in the front. Decorative tabs of yellow, green and red fabric inserted into crown seams. Ties of narrow (1.5 cm) woven red, yellow and blue wool braid, finished with wool fabric tabs.
Man's brown leather belt, trimmed with white painted grommets and brown metal studs; fastened with a narrow leather strip and metal buckle. Two leather loops on bottom edge for attaching tools. Two tools attached: a knife (18.3 cm) with metal blade, wood and bone handle, leather and bone sheath; ovoid leather pouch (approximately 33 cm long), trimmed with yellow and red wool fabric, yellow and green rickrack and light yellow-brown reindeer fur. Small square of plastic tape (reflective tape?) glued on at centre back; evidence that two other squares of tape had been attached but have fallen off.
A woman's large square shawl of finely woven light brown wool, edged with wide (15.5 cm) bands of bias-cut, embroidered, pale beige silk textile and ribbon with multi-coloured floral and geometric designs of predominently red and green. The design is face-up on two adjacent sides and face-down on the other two adjacent sides, so that when the shawl is folded to form a triangle, the designs appear on the same side. Light brown silk fringe on all sides.
Women's dark blue wool tunic. The tunic has a deep v-neck without a closure and long sleeves with gussets under the arms. It hangs straight from the shoulders infront, the back is slightly fitted above waist and flared below the waist by means of four gores. There are bands of red and yellow with embroidery and rickrack in blue and green around the neck, shoulders, upper back, cuffs and hem. ‘All wool’ is written on the selvage underarm seam, visible from the outside. The inside is unlined.
A woman’s headdress consisting of a crown and a broad panel that hangs down along the back. It is shaped from a piece of coarsely woven dark brown and blue textile and is heavily decorated with cowrie shells, red and white glass beads, and embroidery. The crown portion is embellished with closely-spaced rows of cowrie shells and a central strip of geometric shapes formed from red and white glass beads. There is a large brown and orange pom pom at the centre back. The “tail” is decorated with scattered small buttons of various kinds and small silver diamond-shaped ornaments. A costume jewelry brooch (gold with red and blue stones) is pinned in the centre. There is a strip of embroidered geometric shapes at the end of the “tail", and the bottom edge is finished with a braided fringe formed from the warp threads of the textile.
Pair of woman's off-white felt slippers have black wool braid binding at the upper edge. There is also a red, green and black embroidered wool design on vamp and upper edge. There is a red, white, black and green concentric circle wool pom-pom on the vamp. A flat grey leather sole is glued on to the bottom.
A woman's straight, extended, loose-fitting blouse with an attached petticoat that has a keyhole neckline with an embroidered and beaded trim, hand finishing, and ties of twisted fibre. Embellished with vertical bands of embroidery and beading from neck to waist at the centre front and from the back to the front at the shoulder seam. Long set-in sleeves have wide vertical band of embroidery and beading from the shoulder to the wrist. Embroidered and beaded bands at the wrist edge with yellow lace trim and underarm gussets. Hand embroidery in geometric stylized flowers worked in heavy wool (?) thread and glass beads. Lace trim at the wrist is made by pulling and reworking the threads. No shoulder seams. Hand sewn seams have decorative finishing. Embroidery has a main design consisting of red, yellow, orange, light blue, dark blue, green, and white beads in floral and geometric patterns outlined by black thread.