costume (women's) * foreign costume and textiles * beadwork;hat
- From The Collection Of
- Nottingham Museums
- Accession Number
- NCM 1985-513
- Discipline
- Humanities
- Date
- 1860 – 1870 (creation date)
- Materials and Techniques
- cotton, glass (material)
- Place
- North America, Canada (creation)
- Description
- glengarry; black velvet, glass beads ('lazy squaw beading')
- History of Use
- 2 side pieces seamed at centre front, curved and sloped down to centre back where open; pointed oval top piece; edges bound with red cotton; top embroidered with a tree motif, the trunk and branches diagonally striped in navy blue and green beads, striped leaves and berries in shades of blue, white and yellow; hammered metal sequins in blue and red and yellow and red, held on by opaque white beads, edged with lines of similar beads and zig-zag of red beads; the sides with similar tree motifs beaded as before, edged zig-zag of yellow beads between blue and white lines; back edge bound with cream silk ribbon, remainds of bow
lining: lavender linen - See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Nottingham Museums
- CC BY
Creation Place
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