Hide Strap Dress with Painting at Hem and Fringes at Shoulders

Hide Strap Dress with Painting at Hem and Fringes at Shoulders

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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 lowest band consists mainly of horizontal lines. The upper band alternates squares with vertical rectangles filled in with smaller squares, diamonds and dots.

1911-1913

Innu (Montagnais-Naskapi)

Natuashish, Labrador and Newfoundland

Caribou hide, red, yellow and green pigment, sinew

Flaherty became interested in Innu and Inuit artifacts and collected them prior to his famous filming of Nanook of the North.

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

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