Caribou Hide Strap Dress with Beaded Tassels

Caribou Hide Strap Dress with Beaded Tassels

31-7-4B

This dress can be considered a "side-fold" dress because it is made of a single caribou hide fastened on one side seam with a series of thong ties. It is decorated around the hem with red, blue and brown pigment in motifs of horizontal lines and scallops, as well as a row of glass bead fringe. It has an accompanying narrow undecorated hide belt, and is worn with the separate sleeves 31-7-4A.

1880, before

Barren Ground Naskapi

Shefferville, Labrador; Matimekosh Indian Reserve #3

caribou hide, 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.

CARIBOU HIDE SLEEVES 

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

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