Canadian Museum of History

Title

Canadian Museum of History

Alternative Title

CMH

Spatial Coverage

Hull, Quebec, Canada

Collection Items

Male Doll with Wampum Belt and Silver Brooch
Male doll with wampum belt woven with diamond motif and silver cresent brooch at neck. He wears a ruffled linen shirt and blue stroud leggings under a red linen blanket with horizontal rows of alternating brown and yellow tape. His regalia is…

Male Doll with Wampum Belt and Straw Hat
Male doll with carved and painted wooden face wears wampum belt around neck and the remnants of a decomposing straw hat. He is wearing a linen ruffled shirt and faded black blanket with white and blue ribbonwork on edges and two horizontal rows of…

Skirt with Diamond Motif Ribbonwork
Dark blue woolen broadcloth or stroud skirt with drawstring at waist drawn through the top of a black cotton panel. The skirt has a side-front vent. Hem and vent are embellished with eight rows of diamond mesh ribbonwork and white seed bead edging…

Cotton Print Blouse with Centerfront Opening
Blouse made of blue cotton with tiny white polka dots has large collar, yoke, long full sleeves gathered into cuffs and red scalloped ribbon trim around the collar, down the center front and around the hem. The blouse extends to midthigh. It is faded…

Female Doll with Multiple Wampum Bead Necklaces
Wooden female doll has carved and painted face. She wears a cotton shortgown, woolen skirt and leggings, with moccasins and multiple necklaces of black and white beads that represent wampum. She has a silver hair club at the back. She is paired with…

Woolen Skirt with Horizontal Ribbon Stripes
Navy blue woollen skirt is sewn together to form a tube. It has a wide cotton band at waist with drawstrings, and four horizontal ribbon stripes around hem (from bottom: green, yellow, red and pink).

Pink Cotton Women's Shortgown
Pink cotton shirt with gathering at neck, shoulders and cuffs. Deep centerfront opening on either side of neck gathered into band with box pleats facing upwards towards neck.
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