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Toy3205/4

Toy horse. Animal has a long neck, thin legs, and a long body. It is completely covered with glass seed beads sewn to a layer of yellow silk in criss-cross patterns on the neck, and diagonal lines on legs and body, in colours of white, blue, red, yellow, green and orange. Face is white with red halter and tail is multicoloured with a tuft of purple wool at tip. Mane and reins are constructed of a line of beading with small tassels in blue, pink, yellow, grey and purple.

Culture
Maldhari: Mutwa
Material
glass, silk fibre and wool fibre
Made in
Kutch, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Toy3205/3

Toy elephant. Animal has a thick trunk, relatively small head and ears, long legs, and a thin body. It is completely covered with glass seed beads sewn to a layer of blue silk in criss-cross patterns of white filled with green and red. Face is white with blue ears and eyes, and small red tusks emerge. Curved trunk and legs are decorated with diagonal lines of beads in red, green and white, with a ring of yellow at trunk’s tip. Tail is beaded similarly, with a tuft of light purple wool at end.

Culture
Maldhari: Mutwa
Material
glass, silk fibre and wool fibre
Made in
Kutch, Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Club3194/31 a-b

Ceremonial war club. Club stick (part a) is long and relatively straight, covered in brown canvas and red felt. Ends are wrapped with narrow strips of fur. Top has an open loop created out of fur. Along the length of the stick are three tassels of horse hair, and several areas of blue glass beading, with the occasional inclusion of some brass beads. Part b is a round, hide wrapped stone. One half of the hide covering is painted dark blue. A braided thong of leather is sewn to the seams of the hide, and attaches two large cream and brown feathers and smaller red feathers with pink beading at the quills, and black glass beads around the thong, to the stone.

Culture
Kainai
Material
wood, skin, feather, cotton fibre, horse hair, glass, brass metal, wool fibre and stone
Made in
Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Gloves3194/15 a-b

Gloves, or gauntlets, made of soft suede, fully lined with a synthetic fleece. Opening is wide at forearm, with a closed hand pocket and a detached thumb. Wrist panel at top is black felt decorated by beading of a large light pink flower surrounded by light green leaves, and small dark red flowers with a dark green centre. Panel is edged by a long thick fringe along the outside and a short fringe laying around the wrist, both made of imitation hide.

Culture
Anishinaabe: Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug
Material
moose skin, wool fibre, synthetic fibre and glass
Made in
Big Trout Lake, Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shirt3194/11

Beaded shirt. Tunic has a high, rounded neck and long sleeves, with a wide fringe cut into the wrists and hem. The material is red stroud felt, with raw brown material along the hem. Heavy beaded panels cover the neck and shoulders front and back as well as the tops of the arms, with colour blocks in white and blue, and geometric patterns and crosses in red, white, yellow and green. A leather fringe hangs along the edges of the neck panel.

Culture
Kainai
Material
cotton fibre, glass, leather skin and wool fibre
Made in
Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Miniature Moccasins3194/10 a-b

Miniature beaded moccasins. Shoes are made of a light coloured hide with a wide folded flap made of cream cotton and red wool strips sewn around the back of the heel. Flap ties in front, over the shoe’s long tongue. Toe is decorated with black beads set in a ‘T’ shape with a square of translucent beads at centre. Bottom of shoe 'b' has lines of fine stitching across surface.

Culture
Kainai
Material
skin, wool fibre, glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasin3194/8

Beaded moccasin. Shoe is made of hide, fully beaded on the toe and along sides of foot in lines in light blue glass beads with a slightly ‘v’ shaped portion of alternating areas of red, yellow and dark blue. Beading continues along the toe cap and on the two forks of the shoe’s tongue. A strip of red wool is attached around the ankle. Interior is unlined.

Culture
Kainai
Material
skin, glass and wool fibre
Made in
Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasins3194/6 a-b

Beaded moccasins. Shoes are made of hide, lined fully on the interior in light blue synthetic fleece. Top of toe and long flap covering the back of the heel are made of green felt with beaded foliage. Toe decoration shows a white branch with green leaves and two sets of flowers, one in pink and green, the other in yellow and blue. Around the heel are similar motifs in a horizontal line, with a dark pink cotton lining on the underside of the flap. Yellow, red and white beads edge the flap.

Culture
Anishinaabe: Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug
Material
skin, synthetic fibre, wool fibre, cotton fibre and glass
Made in
Big Trout Lake, Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasins3194/5 a-b

Beaded moccasins. Shoes are made of moose skin with thick fur lining the ankle. Top of toe and flap covering the back of the heel are decorated with heavy beading: a rose with green and blue foliage on the toe is edged by a line of alternating pink and blue beads over green felt. The heel flap holds cross hatched beading in white, red, blue, and pink. Interior of the moccasins are unlined.

Culture
Gwich'in
Material
moose skin, muskrat fur ?, glass and wool fibre
Made in
Old Crow, Yukon Territory, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Miniature Moccasins3194/4 a-b

Miniature beaded moccasins. Shoes are made of a light coloured hide with a wide flap made of tan and red cotton sewn over leather that stands upright around the back of the ankle. Flap is decorated with black beading at bottom, and a cotton pull loop is attached at back centre of heel. Shoe ‘b’ has a silk-like tie at front (missing on shoe ‘a’). Toes are decorated with blue, white and yellow beads in a concentric diamond shape.

Culture
Kainai
Material
skin, wool fibre, cotton fibre, glass and silk fibre ?
Made in
Alberta, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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