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Drum2762/26

Buffalo calf skin drum. Skin is lashed to the bottom of the frame with sinew, four strips of which are twisted into the centre and tied together in a large knot. The top rim is painted with a band of black and red and the top surface has four black V-shapes placed on opposing sides and a red crescent in the centre. Inscription on inside of wood frame.

Culture
Cree
Material
buffalo skin, wood, paint and sinew
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2762/23

Long necklace made of light turquoise blue beads. A continuous string of beads is tightly coiled around a long piece of beige cotton cording and looped several times at each of the ends to form tassels. The two ends are held together by a small string of brown translucent beads attached near the tasseled ends and twisted up with a few more blue bead loops.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Necklace2762/22

Long necklace made of translucent red and a few white beads. A continuous string of the red beads is tightly coiled around a long piece of rolled beige cotton fabric and looped several times, with the white, to form tassels at each of the ends. These two ends are held together by a small string of beads twisted up with a red and white bead loops.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Purse2762/15

Rectangular beaded purse with zipper at tip edge. Made from a folded panel of beadwork with added skin side panels that is lined inside with a peach coloured satin fabric. Beaded design is similar on both white ground sides, two large yellow, orange and blue diamonds with a line of three crowns at top and bottom, but one side has four diamonds within the larger diamonds and an attached strap in middle.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass, skin, cotton fibre, metal and fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2762/14

Small fringed drawstring purse made of glass beads. The diamond mesh tube is made of coloured translucent glass seed beads strung in horizontal bands of colour, starting with the dark green fringed bottom, then light green, light green with yellow, a thicker band of yellow with dark green chevrons in the middle, another band of mixed, and the final dark green loops at the top. Pieces of black cord are looped through and knotted at the ends.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pipe Bag2762/9

Long skin pipe bag with beaded floral design and long fringe, tied near top with string. Yellow skin bag, with four deep scallops at the top end and a seam down one side, is rimmed with brown beads. A heavy beadwork panel encircling the bottom, above the thick fringe has a different design in a white ground on each side, one with larger flowers and more pink, purple, red and yellow beads, the other darker with greens, red, browns, blue and mustard yellow.

Culture
Cree
Material
skin, glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2762/8

Flat rawhide bag (or hanging?) decorated with two areas of beaded floral design in pink, red, blue, green and white. A rectangular-shaped piece of purple fabric with pink flowers and yellow leaves is stitched to the back and to one inner side of the pouch. A string of gold beads is decoratively stitched along the edges, forming tassels at each of the bottom corners, and brown fabric tabs are attached to each of the top corners.

Culture
Cree
Material
skin, glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag2762/6

Small, flat, rounded beadwork bag with opening along the top bead-frilled edge. Beadwork covers front and back fabric discs that are lined on the inside with striped blue and beige fabric. One pattern is pink and purple triangular shapes between orange and green crosses with a white ground, the other is orange, green and blue square shapes with a yellow ground.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Moccasins2762/1 a-b

Pair of large reddish-brown rawhide moccasins (a-b) with tall cuffs and long laces knotted together. The only decoration is the white triple stitching of the seam joining top to sides. Additional piece of skin is added to lengthen the tongue.

Culture
Cree
Material
rawhide skin and cotton fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Imperfect Doll2699/1 a-c

Multi-media installation. The doll (a) consists of a wooden artist’s maquette body with brain-tanned deer hide head (no facial features), hand coverings, and dress (with fringes at sleeves and decorated with English and Cree text written in pink gel-pen ink), pink and yellow cut-glass seed beads sewn onto dress and moccasin boots, horse hair braids with white satin ribbon, ncecklace of porcupine quill, brass bead and sinew, clam shell earrings, and a belt with large brass buttons. The doll sits in a chair (part b) constructed of deer hide, wood, and sinew, and face a small LCD screen, which fastens to a wooden base (part c), and plays a video loop, with video and audio footage created by the artist.

Culture
Cree
Material
brass metal, cotton fibre, wood, deer skin, glass, fibre, horse hair, porcupine quill, sinew, clam shell and ink
Made in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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