Painted Hide Strap Dress with Fur Flap

Painted Hide Strap Dress with Fur Flap

915.40.2.1

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 the leggings for this ensemble. The dress's motifs include horizontal lines and long scallops.

1910

Innu (Montagnais-Naskapi)

Natuashish, Labrador and Newfoundland

Furred caribou hide, red and blue 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.

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leggings 915.40.2.2.1-2

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

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