Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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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.
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.
Turquoise belt with embroidery, hanging flaps and metal hook and bar fasteners. It is worn with a robe (Edz3797 a). There are two flaps hanging from the top edge and two from the bottom edge. The front is embroidered with a large floral motif in black and white. The back is lined with white cotton.
A small fabric doll with porcelain head, arms and legs, wearing a stiff gold top and wide flat skirt decorated with a string of beads.
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.
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.
Long beaded fabric belt. Short strings of glass seed beads and silver metal beads are stitched onto a dark burgundy coloured strip of fabric in a design of yellow and blue crosses and squares on a white ground. Two small metal loop eyes (for hooks) are sewn onto one end.
Small collapsible spoon made of two pieces that join at the centre, and rotate around a central point in order to collapse in half. (The spoon fits into one of the bamboo tubes attached to 529/12 a.)
Small whisk formed from a piece of bamboo that has been split into many tines that go outward from the stem. (The whisk fits into one of the bamboo tubes attached to 529/12 a.)
Tea caddy. Small, lidded, cup-shaped container. The lid fits over the rim of the base. Both are black lacquerware.