Hide Strap Dress with Painted Eight Direction Motif

Hide Strap Dress with Painted Eight Direction Motif

HC1649

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. It has a single painted band placed horizontally near the hem. The motif is a series of squares with eight "fingers" going from their center to the corners and sides.

1910

Innu (Montagnais-Naskapi)

Natuashish, Labrador and Newfoundland

Caribou hide, red, yellow and black pigment, sinew

Gift of Sir William Mackenzie. Probably collected by Robert J. Flaherty. In 1910, the CNR commissioned him (1884 – 1951) to search for iron ore deposits along the northeast coast of Hudson's Bay.

55.91564, -61.12415 (N 55°54′56″ W 61°07′27″)

122 x 152.5 cm

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