sash
- Museum number
- Am1929,1216.15
- Description
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Sash; sewn of cloth; sash of black velvet cloth with glass beadwork in floral patterns.
- Production date
- 1929 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 172.30 centimetres
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Width: 10.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment by Ruth Holmes Whitehead, March 1985. "Long man's sash of black velvet, backed with pink cotton. Border of faded red silk ribbon applique, elaborated with groups of three white seed beads at intervals. Based in one sector of double-curve motif, one sector Victorian floral motif; these alternate. The floral motif is a type named 'fat flower' by Jonathan King. The double-curves are typical of Maliseet work, tight coiled ends, like fiddlehead ferns. The beads used are blue, white, rose pink, mustard, crystal, pea green, coral, light blue, translucent green, and translucent gold."
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1988 15 Jan-1 May, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1988 1 Jul-1 Nov, Museum of Civilization, Lorne Building, Ottawa, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
- Condition
- Excellent
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Acquisition notes
- Comment by Ruth Holmes Whitehead, March 1985. "Don. 1929 by the Executors of the late Mrs. Henry Brady, Cold Ashton Rectory, Chippenham. Part of a large collection of Micmac and Maliseet beadwork."
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1929,1216.15
