The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

Baggy shalvaar style pants, worn with a long tunic (part a), and veil or shawl (part c), as part of a wedding ensemble. Pants are made of wild tussar silk in a light orange-brown colour and have a wide waist band, with pull-string that ties at the front. Legs are pleated at top front, loose through the thigh and tapering toward the ankle, where hem is stitched five times. The garment is otherwise undecorated. Interior is lined with silk fabric in a course weave.

Wool pants (part of a man's costume with 3052/25-32). Pants are full length with wide legs and an elasticized waist. Colour is bright red, with heavily embroidered cuffs in yellow and green zigzag lines and diamond shapes, embellished with multi-coloured sequence. Above the cuffs on the outside of the pant leg is a linear motif in the same colours, also with sequence and beads, from which springs zigzagging lines in yellow, green and metallic silver, running from cuff to waist.

Man’s dark blue pants made from several pieces of fabric sewn together. Legs are wide, crotch is dropped and square. Waistband is wide and unfinished.

Heavy wool pants that are part of a costume together with a coat (2956/203 b), a mask (2956/203 a), and six bells (2956/203 d-i). The pants are pink and dark blue patterned wool, embellished with rows of fringes in yellow, red and green. They open at the top front and close with two plastic buttons. The suspenders are sewn at the back and close in front with two plastic buttons.

A pair of heavy wool pants that is part of a costume along with a coat (2956/202 b), a mask (2956/202 a), and five bells (2956/202 d-h). The pants are of dark red and white patterned wool and are covered with yellow, red and green fringes. The knitted suspenders are sewn at the back and close in front with two plastic buttons.

THE THOMPSON INDIANS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. TEIT, JAMES MEMOIRS, 2, 1900

THE THOMPSON INDIANS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. TEIT, JAMES MEMOIRS, 2, 1900

Opera costume pants. Long, wide-legged blue cotton pants with a wide band of natural cotton at the waistband, unfinished on top edge. Leg hems are embellished with a simple cotton ribbon.

Woman's opera costume pants (worn with 2967/5-6). Pair of light green pants, with a wide white cotton waist band. The pants are meant to be pulled on, with no closure, strings or buttons. Legs are relatively wide and undecorated. Each pant cuff has a large removable snap-on decoration (parts b and c) in the shape of flowers and foliage made of gold and silver sequins and transparent tubular beads.