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Jacket788/6

Small white hide jacket with embroidery. The jacket has a wide collar and short sleeves. There are embroidered floral motifs in blue and green on the collar (front and back), sleeves and lower front. White fur trims the collar and cuffs. The lower edge is serrated.

Culture
Dene
Material
caribou skin, fibre and ermine skin
Made in
Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jacket788/5

Small white hide jacket with embroidery and fringe. The jacket has a wide collar, short sleeves and fringe on the bottom hem. Two thin hide pieces are threaded through the centre, extending as ties on both sides. Floral bouquets are embroidered on the collar and cuffs in pink, purple, yellow, blue and green. White ermine fur trims the collar and cuffs.

Culture
Dene
Material
caribou skin, ermine skin and fibre
Made in
Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressNe225

Large feather headdress on brown felt hat. Feathers are light white with dark brown tips and have at their tops pink and blue fluffy feather ornaments while having at their bottoms white fluffy feather ornaments. The feathers are attached to the headdress headband with skin loops bound with red wool. Two ermine skin ornaments dangle from either sides along with two braided wool pieces of green, yellow, and red. Beaded headband panel at front with red centred triangles outlined with yellow and either green or dark blue on a white ground. Fluffy orange feathers along top of headband. Pink, purple, green, blue, red, orange, and brown fluffy feathers decorate the back head part along with one red, one blue, and one orange feather.

Culture
Sioux
Material
feather, wool fibre, glass and ermine skin
Made in
USA
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Frontlet Headdress687/1

Headdress with a frontlet of red painted wood inlaid around three edges with coppers and abalone. In the centre of frontlet is a human figure, elbows resting on knees with hands held up, palms outward; figure has inlaid abalone for eyes and teeth. Frontlet is attached to a white fur hat which, in turn, is attached to a long train (80 cm le) of off-white ermine skins, backed by red cotton. The ermine tails--the tips of which are dark brown--each have a red strip of cotton tied to them.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wood, metal, paint, shell, ermine skin, cotton fibre and rabbit skin
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head Ring1119/3

Round headring with four braided cedar bark tiers and a bundled layer on top, all are dyed red. Lined with red wool inside. One small animal skin with white fur attached to the front and another attached to the back of the head ring. There is a rectangular shaped piece of abalone attached to the front.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
wool fibre, abalone shell, dye, fibre, ermine skin and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Pouch788/4

Pouch composed of off-white skin in a classic shield shape trimmed with off-white ermine fur around the edges and with five ermine tails attached along the bottom. The pouch is embroidered with a floral motif in pink, purple, yellow, orange-grown and green. Lined with off-white silk.

Culture
Arctic America
Material
silk fibre, dye, skin and ermine skin
Made in
Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HeaddressA7297

Leather headband with seventeen bear claws attached to it at evenly spaced intervals. Tips of claws are held upright by string tied to each and wrapped with very thin layers of ermine (?) skin.

Culture
Northwest Coast
Material
bear claw, ermine skin ? and leather skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA9074

Fibre rope necklace with four decorated bundles. A wooden rectangular end wrapped in cedar bark and black and red fibre then tied with twine with a swan head mounted on top that would dangle, beak down. The left side has a small cedar strip bundle covered in ermine fur. The back section is two ermine skins wrapped together. The right side is a bird wing plus part of the body intertwined with another animal.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
swan head, wood, bird wing, ermine skin, fibre and cedar bark
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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OrnamentA7961 r

Ornament consisting of a piece of elastic joining two ends of the ermine to form a wristlet.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
ermine skin, fibre and rubber ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Neck OrnamentA7961 x

Ermine skin split in half forms necklace with the ermine head at the back of the neck and an eagle's foot as the pendant.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
eagle foot and ermine skin
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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