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Belt3013/3

Beaded belt is completely covered in small glass beads on the front, with a light blue background and regular patterns of triangles, diamonds and lines in dark blue, red and pink interspersed across the surface. The back of the belt is raw leather. At each end of the belt are two ties used to connect it around the waist.

Culture
Plains: Okanese ?
Material
leather skin, glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Balcarres, Saskatchewan, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pipe3013/2 a-b

Stone pipe with a wooden stem (part a), long and rectangular, with rounded, narrowing tenon, and lip with bore. The tenon fits into the mortise on the shank. Pipe head (part b) is made of red catlinite stone and is undecorated. Shank is long, closed at distal end. From its middle protrudes the cylindrical bowl with chamber.

Culture
Plains: Okanese ?
Material
catlinite stone and wood
Made in
Balcarres, Saskatchewan, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Club3013/1

Beaded cow horn club. The head is made of two cow horns with the tips pointing outward from the centre. A piece of checked fabric in yellow, white and dark purple is wrapped around the centre where the horns join. Furred hide is wrapped around the fabric, and white feathers are attached at top. The handle is covered in small glass beads of white, black, dark blue and orange. Two strips of hide hang from the bottom of the handle and join at their distal ends, edged in green and orange beads, with transparent beads decorating the centre. At the bottom is a finely cut leather tassel.

Culture
Plains: Okanese ?
Material
cow horn, leather skin, cotton fibre, glass, plastic and feather
Made in
Balcarres, Saskatchewan, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sheath2762/28 a-b

Beaded knife sheath (part a) with carved wooden knife inside (part b). The front sheath panel of beaded fabric with a scalloped edge (lined at the back with a burgundy fabric), decorated with yellow and blue crosses and diagonal lines, is sewn to a skin panel with fringe down one side. Coils made of strings of beads wrapped around strips of fabric are at top and bottom; the top is a handle of white and blue, the bottom a long tail in yellow and blue with a red wool fabric tassel.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass, cotton fibre, moose skin, red cedar wood, silk fibre and wool fibre
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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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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Dress YokeD2.21

Dress yoke with beads sewn onto a backing of brown satin and cotton interfacing. This backing is lined by the same brown satin. The beadwork is in a pattern of horizontal light and dark blue stripes interspersed with clear yellow and greenish-blue bands with several star shapes in clear yellow, dark blue and light greenish-blue. Beaded fringe with cowrie shell ends. Skin ties at sides and neck.

Culture
Cree
Material
silk fibre ?, cotton fibre, cowrie shell, glass, skin and dye
Made in
Regina Beach, Saskatchewan, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentD2.188

Length of tan-coloured braided horse hair with six large, spherical blue beads. The braided cord has half-square knots (spiral) and square knots (flat). The cord is single strand until two beaded joins where it splits into four. Two of the cords end in a thick tuft of bristle. The other end varies from double strands, to single strand at the beadsand ends in a tied loop.

Culture
Plains
Material
glass ? and horse hair
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Collar713/1

A long brown fabric piece with angled ends and a beadwork pattern on one side. The beadwork pattern has a white background with two yellow-centred floral-leaf-like designs outlined with orange and light blue in the middle of the pattern with a dark blue-centred tear-drop-shaped design otulined with orange next to them and a three-petaled design with orange centres outlined with light blue at the ends. Two metal loops are at one end on the fabric side of the object.

Culture
Cree
Material
glass, metal and fibre
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beadwork Belt1763/2

A belt-like strip of beadwork on a stiff leather and fabric backing. Beaded belt with ends bound in leather. One end has a tied loop, the other end has two ties. Backing is light brown heavy cotton. Design is geometric on green background. Diamond designs in blue, orange and red alternate with simple blue and grey cross.

Culture
Plains
Material
glass, cotton fibre and leather skin
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Belt1763/1

Belt or tie. Beadwork strip of red beads with square black repeating motif. Both ends have four red beaded loops.

Culture
Plains
Material
glass and cotton fibre
Made in
Saskatchewan, Canada ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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