Hide Strap Dress with Painted Motifs and Beading

Hide Strap Dress with Painted Motifs and Beading

1942.237

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 shoulders instead of straps.

1880, before

Barren Ground Naskapi

Shefferville, Labrador; Matimekosh Indian Reserve #3

Unsmoked caribou hide (note bug bite marks on hide), red, brown, bright blue and dark blue pigment, glass seed beads.

Frank Speck collected mainly around Lac St-Jean (Mashteuiatsh; usually given as "Lake St. John" by Speck), St-Augustin (usually "St. Augustine" in Speck) and interior nomadic Naskapi, now settled at Matimekosh Reserve.

54.80022, -66.83183 (N 54°48′01″ W 66°49′55″)

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