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Boot-shaped wall-pocket, or pouch. The boot part is made of a double layer of birch bark, whip-stitched around the edges with thick black thread. There is an arched band attached at the top creating the pocket. Faded floral quillwork designs cover most of the front face and the band. Some quills dyed yellow and green, but most are off-white. (A few parts of the quillwork are missing.) The back is plain birch bark.
White, felted wool jacket with wide folded collar and centre opening; secured shut with three loops and bobble buttons. Collar is embroidered with connecting flowers and vines; done in orange, dark blue, and pink. Being with a serpentine body embroidered on either side of jacket opening, along sleeves, and down back centre of jacket. Being has a triangular head and wide open mouth, with loops imitating teeth and a wavy tongue; curved lines extend from nose, and swirls along bottom edge of jaw. Creature has frilled neck, three legs along length of looped body, and tail with fanning lines. Head and tongue are pink, eye is orange, frills are green and orange, body is orange with dark blue and green highlights, legs and tail are green and pink; circles along body are pink, circles and swirls on head are dark blue. All edges of jacket are trimmed with light purple cotton and bordered with wavy pink lines; additional dark blue irregular-shaped lines border cuffs, jacket opening, and bottom edge.
Set of 6 matching miniature birch-bark chairs (parts a-f), another chair with a slightly different shape and pattern (part g) and a birch-bark corner shelf (part h); all decorated with floral designs in dyed quillwork. Parts a-f and h have similar floral designs on the chair backs and seats, in white, pink, yellow and green quillwork, with a simple cross pattern on the lower sides. The other chair, part g, has much finer floral patterns on five surfaces, embroidered using dyed grasses(?).
Pair of leather sandals with an embroidered green pattern covering much of the foot bed. The upper part of each sandal is made mainly of brown leather, with dyed parts used for the design. The wide strap is green on top, brown underneath. The fine, detailed linear design is made by very thin strips of green leather being woven through the leather of the foot bed. Parts of the upper sandal are also dyed black, along with the edges. The sole of each sandal has a softer piece of beige cow skin attached, that still has some brown hair at the centre.
Multicoloured fibre cord with a loop on the top and a large tassel ornament on the end. The cord and loop are light grey and white with dark and light shades of brown. The cord is decorated with diamonds in various shades of brown. A large light grey-brown tassel is attached near the bottom of the cord with orange fibre. Several wrapped cords (possibly extensions of the main cord ?) emerge from underneath this tassel. These cords are light grey, dark brown, brown-orange, light brown-yellow, and/or red and are mostly covered by the light grey-brown tassel. A smaller red tassel is attached to these cords with orange and light blue fibre. The cords extend through the red tassel and lead into four tassels, each a different colour: dark and light shades of purple and grey; white; dark and light shades of green-blue; and dark and light shades of pink. These tassels are attached to the cords with orange, light blue fibre, and/or dark red-brown fibre.
Multicoloured fibre cord with a loop on the top and several tassels on the end. The loop has stripes of dark brown with brown-orange and light brown-yellow with grey. The cord is decorated with grey, brown-orange, dark brown, and light brown-yellow diamonds with white outlines. A grey and purple (mostly on the underside) tassel is attached to the cord with white fibre. Underneath this is a slightly larger light grey-brown tassel which is attached with orange-red fibre. Below the two tassels is a large tassel coloured in shades of red, which is connected to the cord with fibre of the same colour. The cord splits underneath the red tassel into three slightly thinner braided (?) cords of the same colours. Near the bottom of each cord are small tassels of different colours: the centre tassel is coloured in shades of pink; the others, in shades of green or yellow. Each of these three tassels is attached to the cords with light grey-brown and/or orange-red fibre.
Pink, rectangular textile with unfinished short edges; wide decorative panel in centre with three vertical stripes on either side. Left short edge of textile has a small amount of loose thread, acting as fringe; longer loose threads on right side, with green band stitched partway through them. Central panel has three rows of grouped, white wavy lines; interlocking white and olive green lines between rows. Embroidered dark pink curvilinear motifs, and pink and yellow flowers with green foliage motifs throughout panel. All green embroidery has silver metallic threads; visible from back of textile.
Pink, rectangular textile with unfinished short edges; wide decorative panel in centre with three vertical stripes on either side. Left short edge of textile has a small amount of loose thread, acting as fringe; longer loose threads on right side, with dark pink band stitched partway through them. Central panel has three rows of grouped, white wavy lines; interlocking white and olive green lines between rows. Embroidered dark pink curvilinear motifs, and pink and yellow flowers with green foliage motifs throughout panel. All green embroidery has silver metallic threads; visible from back of textile.
Tube skirt. The skirt is composed of two lengths of dark purple textile stitched together to form a tube. One opening has a 6.5 cm dark grey band attached, with a small section of black textile included to match the width. The other end is unfinished. The dark purple is embroidered with columns of diamonds alternating between groups of two and four in red, white, light purple, yellow, and light green-yellow. There is an off-centre column of repeating diamonds - one column of white and red, and another column of light green-yellow and light purple, with the pattern mirrored on the opposite side of a plain band featuring the text 'GANGAW SPECIAL'. Collector's tag sewn to interior.
Sleeveless blouse. Composed of two rectangular woven panels that are folded in half lengthwise, then partially stitched together down the long edges, creating a v-neck opening for the head and arm holes. Both pieces have single-sided designs of repeating embroidered diamond and other geometric shapes on black backgrounds. The lower portion of the blouse is embellished with dark red-brown beading. The sides are both lightly embroidered with designs in yellow and red, with some beadwork. Collector's tag sewn to interior.