carried accessories * beadwork;bag
- From The Collection Of
- Nottingham Museums
- Accession Number
- NCM 1985-451
- Discipline
- Humanities
- Date
- 1899 – 1985 (creation date)
- Materials and Techniques
- cotton, glass (material)
- Place
- Canada (creation)
- Description
- black velvet, embroidered in coloured glass beads 'lazy squaw beadwork', black moire ribbon handles
- History of Use
- 2 pieces of velvet with sloped sides and curved bases, a trapezium shaped flap on each side; side and bottom edges bound with red cotton over the seams, the bottom edge with loops of alternate yellow and tan beads; top edge bound with moire with 2 long loops (possibly to go over a waistbelt); flaps edged with white beads; 2 rows of white beads inside the edges; flowers in 2 shades of blue, pink and tomato red; green stalks with white spines, leaves of clear and white, and clear and opaque yellow; hammered metal (perhaps tin) sequins attached by beads; both sides alike, but flowers on flaps on a larger scale lining: pink cotton sateen
- See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Nottingham Museums
- CC BY
Creation Place
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