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This portrait depicts the "daughter of a chief from Lake St. Clair," which today is Walpole Island First Nation. The unnamed woman wears a fur robe over a white cotton or linen shirt with gathered neckline. She wears four strands of round beads and…

This painting depicts a group of Anishinaabek sitting around a campfire with several domed wigwams nearby. The woman of the group wears a blue shortgown over a black skirt. The Sault rapids are in the background. Sault Ste. Marie is at the…

This painting depicts a woman seated on the ground leaning against a tree with a cradleboard and infant leaning on a stand nearby. There are a knife case and birchbark basket on the ground next to the mother and baby. In the background is a river…

Painted white hide shift dress with seed bead decorations at bottom of chest flap and between panels at hem. Painted motifs at waist, hip and hem consisting of horizontal lines, scallops and alternating triangles and rectangles. Leather thongs at…

Home tanned hide dress with two side seams, added fringed flap at center front. Fringes at sides and hem. Straps and front flap decorated with seed and cut beads in linear motifs and swastikas.

This pair of sleeves is made from red stroud with woolen tape trim in blue and green, bordered with a white seed bead linear motif.

The body of this blue stroud strap dress is made with the grain going sideways and the selvedge used as decorative motif at hem and bottom of chest flap. The straps and an extension to the hem are made of red stroud with the selvedge showing…

This painted hide strap dress has front and back upper torso flaps that are turned up in the photo, but would be worn turned down. There are short fringes at the upper corners of these flaps. The dress has two bands of painting above the hem. The…

These painted hide leggings are made from caribou hide. There are four horizontal bands with motifs of diamonds and horizontal lines in red and bright blue (probably bluing laundry soap).

This painted hide strap dress has front torso flap with fur and back torso flap without fur. There is painted horizontal motifs above the hem in red and bright blue (probably bluing laundry soap) and along seamlines. These are the same colors as on…